Methods Exam 1

What method of knowing is used in the following sentence: “I believe christianity is the best religion because my pastor believes it is.”

• Rationalism

• Empiricism

• Scientific Method

• Authority

Acceptance rates for doctoral degrees are higher than acceptance rates for master degrees.

• True

• False

• Equal Rates

What method of knowing is used in the following sentence: “I believe the best place to study is the library because everytime I’m in there, there are always lots of people studying.”

• Authority

• Scientific Method

• Empiricism

• Intuition

What method of knowing is used in the following sentence: “I believe there are higher crime rates in low-income areas because the U.S. 2021 census reported higher crime rates in low income areas.”

• Scientific Method

• Rationalism

• Intuition

• Empiricism

If you are finding background literature for a research topic, what is the best university service can be used to request a free copy of a journal article?

• Digital Newsstand

• Interlibrary Loan

• Citation resources

• Course reserves

Which type of journal article uses big amounts of data and does new analyses or uses their own data to analyze directly?

• Psychometric

• Meta-anaylsis

• Empirical

• Theoretical

Where would you find the following sentence? Table 6 shows the correlation between age, relationships, and happiness.

• introduction

• methods

• results

• discussion

What is the general organization of a journal article? (which order)

• introduction, method, results, discussion

• introduction, results, method, discussion

• introduction, method, discussion, results

• introduction, results, discussion, method

What is the maximum number of authors you can write in a citation before you reach the number of authors when you need to write ‘et al., after the first author.’

• You always write et al

• If you have 2 authors, you write the first name and then put et al.,

• If you have 3 authors, you write the first name and then put et al.,

• If you have 3 authors, you write the first two authors names and then put et al

Are page numbers shown on journal articles?

• Yes

• No