Sociology Research methods

When a researcher collects data personally, it is called:

• secondary

• primary

• control group

• Hawthorne Effect

An example of a government generated secondary source of data would be;

• university research data

• primary

• Qualitative

• The Census

A statistical relationship between two or more variables is called

• control group

• Hawthorne Effect

• Correlation

• official statistics

Non-numeric data that expresses the quality of a relationship between two variables is called

• quantitative data

• primary data

• qualitative data

• sampling

The changes in people's behavior that result from their knowledge of being observed is called:

• Hawthorne Effect

• Researcher Effect

• Verstehen Effect

• Seminology

Which of the following is NOT one of the stages of research design?

• Stating the hypothesis

• Information gathering and processing

• Evaluation and Analysis

• Presenting completed research

• publishing completed research

Check all that apply

Which of the following can influence the researcher effect?

• personal bias

• hypothesis

• personal objectivity

• relationship between researcher and subject

What is an "open ended" question?

• Gives a scale of 1-10

• Does not give answer choices

• Gives multiple choices

• One that may be full of bias from the researcher

What is a "Pilot study"?

• involves a large number of subjects

• mini version of a full scale study designed to see if it would be worth doing

• a secondary source of data such as personal letters or documents

• one of the steps of a research design plan

Check all that apply:

What is a strength of collecting primary quantitative data for sociological research?

• allows statistical comparisons of behaviors

• it is easy to repeat or replicate

• allows for more objective research

• captures a narrow range of information

• personal bias is less likely