This type of science relies on scientific methods to investigate individuals, societies, and social processes.
What is social science?
100
This is a characteristic or property that can vary.
What is a variable?
100
The response options to these types of questions must be mutually exclusive and exhaustive.
What are closed-ended questions?
100
A group required by federal law to review the ethical issues in all proposed research that is federally funded, involves human subjects, or has any potential for harm to human subjects.
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
100
A method of sampling in which sample elements are selected as they are identified by successive informants or interviewees.
What is snowball sampling?
200
This type of research focuses on defining and describing social phenomena.
What is descriptive research?
200
This describes a measurement procedure that yields consistent scores when the phenomenon being measured is not changing.
What is reliability?
200
Variables whose values have no mathematical interpretation; they vary in kind or quality, but not in amount.
What are nominal levels of measurement?
200
The ethical principle of treating persons as autonomous agents and protecting those with diminished autonomy in research involving human subjects.
What is respect for persons?
200
A nonprobability sampling method in which elements are selected for a purpose, usually because of their unique position.
What is purposive sampling?
300
This type of research seeks to learn about new or understudied topics and find out how people get along in the setting under question, what meanings they give they give actions, and what issues concern them.
What is exploratory research?
300
The process of informing subjects after an experiment about the experiment's purposes and methods and evaluating subjects' personal reactions to the experiment.
What is debriefing?
300
A measurement of a variable in which the numbers indicating a variable's values represent fixed measuring units and an absolute zero point.
What is ratio level of measurement?
300
The ethical principle of distributing benefits and risks of research in research involving human subjects fairly.
What is justice?
300
A nonprobability sampling method in which elements are selected on the basis of convenience.
What is availability sampling?
400
This type of research identifies the impact of social policies and programs.
What is evaluation research?
400
The state that exists when statements of conclusions about empirical reality are correct.
What is validity?
400
A measurement of a variable in which the numbers, indicating a variable's values specify on the order of the cases.
What is ordinal measurement?
400
The ethical requirement of minimizing possible harms and maximizing benefits in research involving human subjects.
What is beneficence?
400
A method of sampling in which sample elements are selected from a list with every nth element being selected after the first element is selected randomly.
What is systematic random sampling?
500
This type of research seeks to identify causes and effects of social phenomena and predict how one phenomenon will change or vary in response to variation in another phenomena.
What is explanatory research?
500
A variable that is hypothesized to vary depending on, or under the influence of, another variable.
What is the dependent variable?
500
A question to which the respondent replies in his or her own words, either by writing or by talking.
What is open-ended question?
500
The process for disclosing the purposes and potential risks of participating in research to a potential participant.
What is obtaining informed consent?
500
A type of sampling where every element has the same probability of being involved in the sample and a sampling frame is required.