COM101 Quiz

Which of the following activities would Haldane need to undertake as part of his research?

• Talking to parents and teachers

• Finding out how many students own digital devices

• Choosing a sample that is representative of his school's population

• All of the above

Haldane found an article entitled "Modern Technology Causing Canadian Students to Fail". This article could be useful to his research as it

• Is reliable and accurate

• Can provide primary data

• Can yield sufficient data

• Provides secondary data

Why would it be UNACCEPTABLE for Haldane to apply the findings of his research to all teenagers?

• He plans to use only students from his school

• The respondents might not tell the truth

• He plans to use only interviews

• The school is in a rural area

Which of the following would be an advantage if Haldane conducted interviews?

• High reliability of the information to be collected

• Considerable depth of the information to be collected

• Wide geographic coverage of informants

• Costliness of the procedure

Which of the following research designs would be the MOST suitable for Ms Davis to use?

• Descriptive

• Exploratory

• Correlational

• Experimental

Which of the following factors could invalidate the generalization which Ms Davis makes from the findings?

• The sample size is too large

• The sample is not representative of the population

• The research is carried out only in Ms Davis' school

• The research is conducted during end of year examination

All of the following are characteristics of primary research EXCEPT

• First hand information is obtained

• Information is based on published material that might be outdated

• This information is subjective

• The research can be long and time consuming

The first step in the communication process is when the

• receiver decodes the message

• sender transmits a message through a channel

• sender encodes the message

• sender conceptualizes the message

In communication studies, noise is referred to as

• any interference with clear transmission and reception of message during the process of communication

• loud music

• excessive words in the process of communication

• when a person is using a lot of run-on sentences and fragments in the process of communication

• Waving hands in the air

• Shouting at the audience

• Embracing a close family member

• Smiling at the women in the audience