Chapter 3 Test

What is the target group from which a researcher wants to gather data called?

• Secondary Source

• Population

• Respondents

• Subgroup

What is the system of giving credit to another person (writer or speaker) for his or her work?

• Citations

• Plagiarism

• Documentation

• Summarize

What is it called when you present someone else's idea in your own words, phrases, and sentence structure?

• Plagiarism

• Summarizing

• Documentation

• Paraphrasing

What type of data provides results that can be duplicated under similar circumstances?

• Reliable Data

• Valid Data

• Ordinal Data

• Nominal Data

What are indirect or secondhand report of information?

• Valid Data

• Primary Sources

• Reliable Data

• Secondary Sources

What is the act of using another person's words and ideas without properly documenting or giving credit?

• Paraphrasing

• Plagiarism

• Summarizing

• Documenting

What is written indication of the source of borrowed ideas or materials?

• Documentation

• Citations

• Direct Quotation

• Archives

Condensing longer material, keeping essential or main ideas and omitting unnecessary parts is called?

• Paraphrasing

• Documenting

• Summarizing

• Citing

What type of data provides an accurate measurement of what an individual intends to measure?

• Valid Data

• Quantitative Data

• Reliable Data

• Qualitative Data

What is a direct or first hand report of facts or observations?

• Secondary Source

• Population

• Primary Source

• Archives