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Research methods

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is sociology?

a)

it studies Humans and everything they do.

b)

It studies humans and animals and human behavior

c)

It studies human society and human behavior

d)

It studies everything at Sunset

2.

What is a hypothesis?

a)

an educated guess

b)

an absolute solution

c)

a random guess

d)

an experiment

3.

What is a target population?

a)

the whole group you want to study or describe

b)

the population that is practicing for the Hunger Games

c)

population inside the classroom

d)

part of the group you want to study or describe

4.

What is a sample in research?

a)

the whole target population

b)

a piece of food you get to try

c)

only part of the target population

d)

an educated guess

5.

Quantitative data refers to what?

a)

opinion based

b)

open questions

c)

statistics and numbers

d)

descriptive

6.

Correlational research tries to identify relationship between two variables

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Quantitative research is an:

a)

Existential, mechanical, and objective data expressed usually by words.

b)

Empirical, measurable and observable data expressed numerically 

8.

Commonly used sampling frames include

(a)  

9.

Define the two terms:

1. Survey population

2. Sampling frame.

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10.

A researcher wants to investigate the IQ levels of primary school students in LIS MSA. Which of the following should she consider in order to have a more generalizable sample?

a)

Only take male students in the school

b)

Take a few students from both primary and high school and make comparisons

c)

Have equal number of male and female students from all the primary classes.

11.

(a)   is when the findings about a sample can be said to apply to a larger group of people sharing their characteristics.

12.

Form 2 questions from the areas we have covered.

You can use your resources (textbook, notebook etc.)

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