Research Design Exam Review
Course Introduction
Research Design introduces students to the fundamental principles and methodologies involved in planning and structuring effective research studies across disciplines. The course covers key topics such as formulating research questions, developing hypotheses, selecting appropriate research strategies (quantitative, qualitative, or mixed methods), sampling techniques, and issues of validity and reliability. Students will learn how to construct sound research proposals, critically evaluate existing studies, and address ethical considerations in research. Through practical exercises and case studies, the course equips learners with the skills necessary to design rigorous and impactful research projects.
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Understanding Research 2nd Edition by W. Lawrence Neuman
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Chapter 1: Why Do Research
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Q1) ______ should be collected carefully and systematically according to generally accepted rules or standards.
Answer: Empirical evidence
Q2) ______uses an argument as well as critical thinking.
Answer: Social Research
Q3) The research process is finite-requiring no additional studies or results.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q4) Describe exploratory research.What is its goal?
Answer: examine new area,tend to use qualitative data,goal is to define questions for future research
Q5) Two different types of research (e.g.descriptive and exploratory)can often blend together in practice.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q6) Who are the primary consumers of basic and applied research?
Answer: other researchers and practitioners (teachers,etc. )
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Chapter 2: Planning a Study
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Q1) Synthesizing and writing the literature review is the first and easiest step of the literature review process.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
Q2) The______ is the level of reality that a researcher examines.
Answer: level of analysis
Q3) A topic that is appropriate for social research generalizes social patterns that operate in aggregates and are empirically observable.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q4) If a researcher's question is about reasons for an increase in the birth rate in Phoenix,AZ,then the dependent variable is
A)the birth rate in Phoenix.
B)the reason for increase.
C)the number of babies in the world.
D)twins.
Answer: A
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Chapter 3: Becoming an Ethical Researcher
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Q1) What is an institutional review board?
Answer: a committee of researchers and community member that oversees,monitors,and reviews the impact of research procedures on human participants
Q2) When a researcher invites someone to participate in a research study and asks him/her to sign a voluntary consent form,this is called
A)the Milgram principle.
B)the Nazi doctor principle.
C)the Nuremburg Code.
D)principle of voluntary consent.
Answer: D
Q3) Special populations,also called vulnerable populations,include people who may not be fully capable of giving consent freely.Which of the following is NOT a special population?
A)the homeless
B)prisoners
C)students
D)women with red hair
Answer: D
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Chapter 4: Sampling
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Q1) A quasi-random sampling method when a computer is not available is______.
Q2) This type of sampling is a multistage method in which groups are randomly sampled and then a random sample of elements is taken from the sampled groups.This type of random sampling is called ______.
Q3) A(n)______ is a specific list of sampling elements in the target population.
Q4) A random sampling distribution curve is in the shape of A)an exponential curve.
B)parabola.
C)bell shape curve.
D)H and D curve.
Q5) This type of population includes people who engage in concealed activities and is called ______.
Q6) Any statistical characteristic of an entire population is a(n)______.
Q7) The larger the sample size
A)the larger the sampling error.
B)the smaller the population size
C)the smaller the sampling error.
D)has no impact on research.
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Q8) The crucial feature in snowball sampling is that each person or case has a(n)______ with one another.
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Chapter 5: Measuring Social Life
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Q1) Mr.Marsh has received criticism that his most recent study lacks reliability.He is concerned with how he might improve future studies.If he uses pilot versions of a measure,how might it improve reliability? If not a pilot version,what else could he use?
Discuss three other ways that he could improve reliability.
Q2) Index and scale are often used interchangeably and give information on variables. A)True
B)False
Q3) A scale that typically measures opinions or ratings at the ordinal level is probably A)a Likert scale.
B)a social distance scale.
C)a semantic differential.
D)central tendency.
Q4) Name the four levels of measurement,from lowest (discrete and least precise)to highest precision.
Q5) ______ measures do everything that nominal and ordinal measures do,plus they specify the distance between categories.
Q6) What is the difference between reliability and validity?
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Chapter 6: The Survey
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Q1) A researcher faces three survey question sequence issues: how to organize,how to reduce question order effects,and how to control researcher bias.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Dr.Mottle asks respondents if they have an opinion about gas prices,and if they answer yes,she asks them to give their opinion in the second part of the question.What is the name used for this type of question?
A)quasi-filter
B)full-filter
C)full-filler
D)full-question
Q3) What kinds of questions are not appropriate for mailed questionnaires?
Q4) What might be an example of a sensitive issue that a person would underreport?
Q5) A type of bias that occurs when respondents distort answers to look good or to conform to social norms is a(n)______ bias.
Q6) People tend to ______-report having an illness or disability or engaging in illegal or deviant behavior in a survey.
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Chapter 7: The Experiment
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Q1) If a researcher uses deception,they must also
A)debrief participants as soon as possible.
B)keep the deception to themselves.
C)deny that they used deception in publications.
D)discuss the study with colleagues.
Q2) Researchers consult with a(n)______ when there is a question about potential risk or harm to participants.
Q3) Hawthorne Effect is
A)common in field experiments.
B)awareness of being in a study.
C)irrelevant.
D)None of these answers are correct.
Q4) Dr.Van Offer is studying a new communication method.If he uses the new technique in a randomized study,it would be the
A)dependent variable.
B)independent variable.
C)placebo.
D)control group.
Q5) Differentiate pre- versus post-test in the context of an experiment.
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Chapter 8: Research With Non-Reactive Measures
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Q1) Identify five characteristics of variables that are coded in text content.
Q2) Content analysis cannot
A)determine the truthfulness of an assertion.
B)be the basis of research.
C)validate the researcher.
D)perform statistics of itself.
Q3) If a researcher contemplates conduct of an existing statistics research study,it would be a good idea for him/her to talk with a(n)______ first.
A)physician
B)author
C)information professional
D)clergy member
Q4) Identify one limitation of content analysis.
A)researcher competence
B)coder's attitude
C)interpretation of the content's significance
D)definition of the details of the results
Q5) When measuring space,the researcher measures size,volume,amount of time or on a page.
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Chapter 9: Making Sense of the Numbers
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Q1) This measure is the most comprehensive measure of variability,giving an "average" difference between all scores and the mean.It is called what?
A)median
B)standard deviation
C)Z-score
D)mode
Q2) A measure of spread around the center of distribution that gives the researcher the score at a specific place within the distribution is called a(n)______.
Q3) This coefficient tells the researcher the size and direction of effects in multiple regression analysis and is known as the ______ coefficient.
Q4) The spread around the center of a distribution can be measured three ways.The ______ gives the highest and lowest ends of a set of numbers.
Q5) ____ is one of the most widely used statistical techniques for nonexperimental data analysis in professional research reports.
Q6) Discuss measurements used in distribution around the center of a curve: range,percentile,standard deviation,and Z-score.
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Chapter 10: Observing People in Natural Settings
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Q1) Dr.Mottle has been developing relationships within the community where she is conducting her field research.To gain trust she has been helping out with some of the chores in the local store.This is an example of possible strategies that build success in the field.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Very short notes of a few words,written inconspicuously in the field site and used only to trigger memory later are called ______ notes.
Q3) A field site or setting is a fixed physical location.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Name three types of field site events that a researcher can sample.
Q5) What does "being an earnest novice" mean?
Q6) Questions that focus on similarities are called A)contrast questions. B)structural questions. C)similarity questions. D)descriptive questions.
Q7) In field research,a(n)______ is the instrument for acquiring field data.
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Chapter 11: Looking at the Past and Across Cultures
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Q1) Imposing a researcher's own sense of order to make people's beliefs or actions consistent is a type of distortion called A)coherence imposition.
B)supracontext awareness.
C)capacity overestimation.
D)episode overestimation.
Q2) What five similarities do field and historical-comparative research studies have in common?
Q3) Mr.Marsh is not overly concerned about processes.He is most likely conducting A)historical research.
B)historical-comparative research.
C)ethnologic research.
D)field research.
Q4) Specialists in the field of history devote most of their time and efforts to A)field research.
B)writing the final report.
C)gathering and analyzing historical data.
D)checking their facts.
Q5) When a researcher evaluates documents or other primary sources,he uses what two types of criticism?
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Chapter 12: Writing a Research Report
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Q1) When paraphrasing,a researcher must
A)give the original author credit by referencing.
B)always use quotes.
C)exaggerate.
D)take out any wording that does not sound as if it is it might be the researcher's work.
Q2) Dr.Van Offer is contemplating submission of a research proposal to an organization that is completely unknown to him.The RFP from the organization is very vague about its funding policies,and Dr.Van Offer is unsure whether his research is appropriate to the organization's funding mission.What are his next steps? Should he just forget the submission?
Q3) ______ refers to the type of words,length and form of sentences,and pattern of paragraphs.
Q4) Field research reports rarely follow a fixed format with standard sections. A)True
B)False
Q5) A research report should be written for a scientifically literate audience.What three things did Hurd suggest that a scientifically literate person should be able to do?
Q6) The three steps in the writing process are:
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