SOC 318 Mid-term – Flashcards

Which of the following is NOT an essential component of informed consent?

Among the reasons for the frequent use of composite measures is (are) that:

A study reported in American Sociological Review (1994) was entitled "Race Differences in Sexual Activity among Women" The dependent variable was probably:

Stratifying a population prior to drawing a sample:

Social scientist are totally objective in their research

Probability samples are advantageous to the researcher because:

Professor Smith decides to track the dating behaviors of college students throughout their college careers. She decides to begin her research using her introductory class. After explain the study, she assures students that their response will be kept confidential. The students complete her survey during class. Her research most clearly violated which ethical principal.

Every kth element in a list is chosen for inclusion in the sample in

In general, as sample size increases:

Dr. Chang is conducting a research study of undergraduate students at her college. She wants to ensure an equal number of students from each grade level, so she uses the list of students provided by the registrar's office. From each list, she randomly selects 50 students from each group. What strategy of sampling is Dr. Change using?

Steve had a hunch that female students were more punctual than males in the classes he taught So, he began to keep track for a week in each class, how many male and female students came in after the class was scheduled to begin. His results supported his hypothesis. Steve is using:

In the example below, what kind of variable is "parents income"?

Dichotomous variable are a type of nominal variable

Katherine is crating a mock research design that examines the effect of college on religiosity among students. She wishes to interview a random sample of incoming freshmen and do subsequent interviews with the same group at the end of each semester for four years. This is an example of:

Most social scientist would not accept the conceptualization of prejudice as foot size because such a measurement lacks:

When as the independent variable increases, so does the dependent variable, we call this a _________________ relationship.

Which of the following is NOT a discrete variable.

Suffi (1999) hypothesizes that as income decreases so does the likelihood of clinical depression. This hypothesis is a _______________ relationship.

If a researcher wants to measure the concept of "gender identity", but only includes two possible categories of the variable: 1- man and 2- woman, his indicator falls which test for validity?

What are the three parts of a research question?

Professor Smith gave an exam on Monday. On Wednesday Smith gave the same class the same exam. Professor Smith was clearly interested in assessing the exam's:

Professor tilton measured the variable " feelings towards drafting women" with the categories strongly agree, indifferent, disagree, and strongly disagree. Professor Tilton was using the _________ level of measurement.

Mytoan wants to study the relationship between race and climate change beliefs than whites. Which of the following is the best research question for her topic>

When summarizing heavily skewed data, the best measure of central tendency is:

In a perfect normal distribution:

To say that variables "are associated" is to say that:

Which of the following is an example of inductive reasoning

You want to examine the relationship between family size and family cohesion. You use as you sample all the students in your research methods class. What kind of sampling design are you using?

Which of the following subjects everything published to a peer-review process?

A concept that does not vary is a

The variable eduational level was measured as last year in school completed (ie. nonce, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, grade, etc), It is m therefore, measured at the ________ level.

The following table shows the relationship between age and support for a carbon tax. What is the direction of association between these two variables?

In contrast to interviews, self-admininstered have the advantages of:

Inter-obsever reliability occurs when

Which of the following is NOT a unique challenge a researcher may face when using secondary data analysis?

This histogram below shows a variable with what kind of distribution?

Which of the following is NOT a qualitative method?

Researcher M found that in a survey of 300 print advertisements in the top five selling magazines in the US, more than 60 percent featured women in sexually suggestive poses. This research project is an example of

In the diagram below, which variable has the lower standard deviation

ordinal

interval

nominal

ratio