What is ensuring ethical treatment of human participants in conducting research, and deciding whether to approve or disapprove the research study design & protocol.
100
A reason that the Internet can be a useful source of information that forms the background for a research study.
What is the ease of identifying multiple sources of current information and summaries of research that may be in-progress but not yet published?
100
In a cause-and-effect relationship, the variable that is presumed to be the cause
What is an independent variable?
100
A research methodology where the researcher asks open ended or probing questions and then identifies common themes and meanings among the data
What is qualitative research?
100
A directional hypothesis
What is a hypothesis that explains and predicts that relationship between two variables?
200
The term to describe when only the researcher knows the participants' identities
What is confidentiality?
200
The reason "academic" or "scholarly" journal articles are particularly trustworthy knowledge sources
What is the anonymous peer-review process prior to publication?
200
A variable that describes a participant's age,or race, gender, social class, employment status, or other similar factors
What is a demographic variable?
200
Sociologists are guided by this in deciding what kinds of questions to ask as they begin their research study
What is theory or a theoretical approach?
200
A hypothesis that two variables are not related
What is a null hypothesis?
300
A unethical study sponsored by the U.S. government that involved African American men who had syphilis are were not given treatment.
What is the Tuskegee study?
300
The name of one or more database(s) that is a good place to begin a literature search
What is Medline, Sociological Abstracts, Psychological Abstracts, Dissertation Abstracts International, or SAGE Urban Studies Abstracts?
300
In a cause-and-effect study, the variable that is presumed to be the effect
What is dependent variable?
300
The type of research that employs systematic measurement of variables
What is quantitative research?
300
A type of hypothesis that predicts there will be change in a dependent variable, but does not specify whether the change will be positive or negative
What is non-directional hypothesis?
400
Circumstances under which deception may be used in research
What are situations in which deception is deemed relatively harmless, and there is not an alternative method to deception that can be used?
400
The next step a researcher should take after compiling the articles needed for a literature review
What is read and critically assess each article?
400
A variable that influences the dependent variable after the independent variable occurs.
What is an intervening variable or a co-variate?
400
The first step in the research process
What is identification and specification of the research problem or research question?
400
The type of variable represented by the "job training program completed" in the following study hypothesis: Study participants who complete job training Program A will have greater success in finding employment than Study Participants who complete ob training Program B. (hint: it's either the independent or dependent variable.)
What is an independent variable?
500
A reason why a peer-reviewed journal may outright reject a research article submitted for consideration.
What is conducting research without obtaining consent of the participants and without going through IRB approval?
500
when putting together a literature review, this is the way a researcher should handle finding two studies with conflicting results
What is including both of them and discussing their points of disagreement?
500
When two variables demonstrate a correlation that is not causal and may conincidence or be evidence of an unmeasured variable
What is a spurious relationship?
500
This is considered the "gold standard" or clinical research, but is highly regarded in social science research as well.
What is a Randomized Control Trial (RTC)?
500
The correlation or direction represented in the following research hypothesis: The more knowledge Social Workers have about HIV prevention and treatment, the more comfortable they are in helping people with HIV.