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QUESTION 1

1. _____ combines a naturalist approach with a positivist concern for a "systematic set of procedures" in doing qualitative research.

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QUESTION 2

1. A measure of religiosity that is extremely consistent but is actually targeting the respondent’s political affiliation could be considered:

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QUESTION 3

1. Michael is spending three months living in a commune doing participant observation in order to fully understand and document the lives of the people who reside there. What is the likely result of Michael's research?

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QUESTION 4

1. Dr. Ross is looking to examine if the indicators that make up her measurement of romantic attraction are truly related to one another and make for an accurate representation of the variable she is researching. What sort of validity is she examining?

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QUESTION 5

1. Sara wanted to learn about battered women. She entered the world of a battered women's shelter and lived with the women in order to fully learn about the views of these women. She wanted to write a detailed and accurate description about the lives that the women reported. Which of the following approaches best describes Sara's research paradigm?

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QUESTION 6

1. Which of the following is the best example of a breaching experiment?

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QUESTION 7

1. Which of the following is a disadvantage of stratified sampling?

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QUESTION 8

1. The topic of surrogate mothers interests Professor Snyder. Snyder reads the available materials on the topic and wants to develop an age, education, and income profile of women who serve as surrogate mothers in the United States. To develop this profile, Snyder should undertake a(n):

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QUESTION 9

1. You are doing research on hospital personnel—orderlies, technicians, nurses, and doctors. You want to be sure you draw a sample that has cases in each of the personnel categories. You want to use probability sampling. An appropriate strategy would be:

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QUESTION 10

1. Considering the fact that low marital satisfaction should lead to divorce, Professor Rogers checked his measure of marital satisfaction by examining whether couples with low marital satisfaction scores got divorced and those with high levels of marital satisfaction remained married. This illustrates the use of:

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QUESTION 11

1. Reliability is:

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QUESTION 12

1. Jenny wants to do research that tells the stories of rape victims. She wants to tell "their stories" the way they "really are." Jenny is using a(n) _____ paradigm.

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QUESTION 13

1. The unit about which information is collected and that provides the basis of analysis is called a(n):

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QUESTION 14

1. Pregnant women planning to deliver their babies in Hospital A were given a poison control test. After the delivery of their babies, the new moms attended a 2-hour training session on poison control. One week later, at the babies’ 1-week checkup exams, the new moms retook the poison control test. Located in the same city, pregnant women planning to deliver their babies in Hospital B were given a poison control test. One week later, at the babies’ 1-week checkup exams, these new moms retook the poison control test. What design is being used?

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QUESTION 15

1. If a researcher wants to know why there was a noticeable increase in the number of burglaries in the town of Southpaw during 2005, the researcher would design a(n):

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QUESTION 16

1. Jennifer is interested in understanding the dynamics within an economically diverse high school. She interviews a wide variety of students, as well as the staff and faculty to understand how race has an effect on their education. Jennifer is using what sort of research paradigm?

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QUESTION 17

1. Professor Milne is preparing to do qualitative interviewing in a field research project. Milne knows that you are a research methods student and asks for your advice. You tell Milne:

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QUESTION 18

1. Disproportionate sampling and weighting are used by the researcher:

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QUESTION 19

1. Professor Myth asked respondents whether or not they had ever been divorced. One year later, Myth asked the same respondents the same question. Myth found that with repeated applications of the measure different responses were obtained for the same respondent. This means that the measuring instrument was:

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QUESTION 20

1. Professor King examined all the reasons given by 100 couples for their marriages. In the final research report, King listed all the reasons given by the 200 people for their marriages. King is:

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QUESTION 21

1. Probability samples are advantageous to the researcher because:

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QUESTION 22

1. To examine the social interactions of online role-playing gamers, a relatively recent social phenomenon, Kyoko developed a rough outline of what to look for before setting out on observation. This outline was intended to guide, but not specifically structure, the observations. What approach did Kyoko use?

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QUESTION 23

1. Every kth element in a list is chosen for inclusion in the sample in:

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QUESTION 24

1. In Sweden, there is a very strong correlation between the number of storks and the number of babies born. However, both of these variables are associated with region (rural vs. urban). This illustrates which of the following?

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QUESTION 25

1. On Monday, Professor Smith gave an exam, and on Wednesday gave the same class the same exam. Smith was clearly interested in assessing the exam's: