Deck 4: A: Research,methodology,and Ethics

Question 1

Spurious correlation is a relationship in which one variable causes a change in another variable.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Qualitative research involves converting aspects of social life into numbers and determining whether a significant relationship exists.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

A "double standard" occurs when a person employs different means to evaluate or measure the same actions,qualities,or circumstances.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Deductive logic occurs when a researcher attempts to develop a theory or a set of theories to explain or predict a pattern.

Question 5

Because Juanne consistently gets the same results in her measurement for gender equality,we can say that her research is valid.

Question 6

Zimbardo's prison study was conducted over a two-week period.

Question 7

The kinds of research questions you will ask should depend on which data collection methods you feel the most comfortable using.

Question 8

Social researchers using inductive logic move fluidly between theory and data.

Question 9

Quantitative studies are more scientifically rigorous than qualitative studies.

Question 10

Validity refers to the consistency of a given result.

Question 11

Secondary analysis occurs when researchers code and analyze transcripts of interviews they have conducted with research participants.

Question 12

Participant observation is a qualitative method that uses processes of deduction rather than induction.

Question 13

Deception in social research is never justified.

Question 14

Researchers conducting fieldwork must deceive participants about the true nature or topic of their study.

Question 15

In qualitative studies,the researchers themselves are,in effect,the research instruments.