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WorksheetsSociology Research methods
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 11mins
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
The focus of the research is:
research question
data analysis
causation
correlation
Check all that apply
Which of the following are NOT part of laboratory research?
control group
seminology
experimental group
covert observations
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?
Planning
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
The study of cultural meanings (hidden meanings ) in media is called:
Seminology
Hawthorne Effect
Researcher Bias
Primary data collection
(Check all that apply)
A research strategy that takes advantage of the researcher's ability to see things from the subject's viewpoint.
participant observation
Verstehen
understand by experiencing
can be overt or covert
All of these
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Which of the following are types of interviews?
case study
Group
Structured
Unstructured
semi-structured
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
Which of the following is NOT a sampling technique?
systematic sampling
pilot study
stratified random sampling
opportunity sampling
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
Which of the following is a limitation of using primary quantitative data for sociological research?
easy to replicate
numbers can express behavior numerically
doesn't capture the who, what, when and where of behavior
allows for easy analysis and correlations exam.
Check all that apply
Which of the following is characteristic of an experiment?
takes place in a lab or in a natural setting
involves a control group and an experimental group
Is always done by a scientist in a lab coat
involves the testing of variables
Is not usually done for sociological research
Which of the following is a limitation of qualitative data collection methods?
Reliability is lower because it is harder to replicate
allows researchers to study people in their normal settings
results are more likely to show how people really behave
involves more open-ended questions and viewpoints are captured
What is a sampling frame?
A list of everyone in a target population
a target population of 100 people
a random selection of a list on a sampling frame
a division of a population based on certain characterisitics
