Deck 4: Designing Research

Question 1

__________ is the ability to tell whether a researcher studied what he or she proposed to study.

A) Reliability
B) Validity
C) Projectability
D) Deduction

Answer 1

Validity

Question 2

__________ is the ability to project the results of a study from a sample to population.

A) Reliability
B) Validity
C) Projectability
D) Deduction

Answer 2

Projectability

Question 3

__________ moves from something known to be true (major premise) toward a supporting idea and then to some conclusion

A) Reliability
B) Validity
C) Induction
D) Deduction

Answer 3

Deduction

Question 4

__________ makes general conclusions based on individual observations

A) Reliability
B) Validity
C) Induction
D) Deduction

Question 5

__________starts with a premise based on a sample group and leads to a conclusion involving another individual.

A) Simple Induction
B) Inductive generalization
C) Causal inference
D) Statistical syllogism
E) Analogy

Question 6

__________ goes from a premise based on a sample group and leads to a conclusion about the entire population.

A) Simple Induction
B) Inductive generalization
C) Causal inference
D) Statistical syllogism
E) Analogy

Question 7

__________ is drawing a conclusion about cause-and-effect relationship based on observations of some occurrence and conditions that exist at a given time, which one assumes to be the cause.

A) Simple Induction.
B) Inductive generalization
C) Causal inference
D) Statistical syllogism
E) Analogy

Question 8

__________ is going from a generalization to a specific conclusion.

A) Simple Induction.
B) Inductive generalization
C) Causal inference
D) Statistical syllogism
E) Analogy

Question 9

__________ goes from similarities between two things to a conclusion about some additional attributes of both things.

A) Simple Induction.
B) Inductive generalization
C) Causal inference
D) Statistical syllogism
E) Analogy

Question 10

The figure below represents __________.

A) Reliabity
B) Validity
C) Projectability
D) Deduction

Question 11

The figure below represents __________.

A) Reliabity
B) Validity
C) Projectability
D) Both (a) and (b)

Question 12

Red cars have higher insurance rates. Sam has a red car. Therefore, Sam has a high auto insurance rate. This is an example of __________ reasoning.

A) Simple Induction
B) Deductive
C) Causal inference
D) Statistical syllogism
E) Analogy

Question 13

Method and methodology are one and the same. They can be used interchangeably.

Question 14

The illustration below represents the concept of reliability.

Question 15

The illustration below represents validity.

Question 16

For an instrument to be valid it also has to be reliable.

Question 17

Prediction involves a conclusion about future from sample in past

Question 18

Define any five of the following terms: deduction, induction, projectability, reliability, validity, statistical syllogism, analogy, and causal inference.