If a researcher was trying to understand the role of education on years of experience, years of experience would be considered the

Question 1If a researcher was trying to understand the role of education on years of experience, years of experience would be considered the ______.

 

dependent variable

 

 continuous variable

 

 independent variable

 

 control variable

 

Question 2In the _________ phase, we try to make sense of or the observed phenomenon or event.

 

rationalization

 

 observation

 

 exploration.

 

 validation

 

Question 3If a researcher is trying to understand the role of gender on education, gender would be considered the ______.

 

continuous variable

 

 control variable

 

 independent variable

 

 dependent variable

 

Question 4One of the goals of research is to understand the influence of the ______.

 

independent variable on the control variable

 

 control variable on the independent variable

 

 independent variable on the dependent variable

 

 control variable on the dependent variable

 

Question 5______________ may have progressive levels of abstraction.

 

concepts

 

 indicators

 

 variables

 

 attributes

 

Question 6Literature reviews are typically done prior to conducting new research.

 

True

 

 False

 

Question 7The first step in constructing a research question is ______.

 

narrowing the topic

 

 picking a topic

 

 picking a purpose

 

 constructing a research question

 

Question 8While a model tries to explain a phenomenon, a theory tries to represent a phenomenon.

 

True

 

 False

 

Question 9Data analysis is only qualitative.

 

True

 

 False

 

Question 10Conservatives and liberals tend to have very different perceptions of the role of government in people’s lives, and hence, have different opinions on how to solve social problems.

 

True

 

 False

 

Question 11If the correlation between variables is 0.70 the percentage of the shared variance is ______.

 

70%

 

 51%

 

 49%

 

 30%

 

Question 12When interested in examining how one variable changes in relation to another, which of the following descriptive statistics would you want to use?

 

standard deviation

 

 variance

 

 correlation

 

 mean

 

Question 13If you wanted to compute the correlation between two nominal-level variables, which type of correlation should you use?

 

point biserial

 

 phi

 

 Pearson

 

 Spearman rank

 

Question 14In a correlation matrix, the numbers above and below the diagonal row of 1.00s are a mirror image of themselves.

 

True

 

 False

 

Question 15When testing partial correlation, the impact of a third variable is ______.

 

removed

 

 added

 

 explored

 

 reduced

 

Question 16When data points group together in a cluster from the lower left-hand side of the xy axis to the upper right-hand side, what is this?

 

positive slope

 

 negative slope

 

 negative intercept

 

 positive intercept

 

Question 17Who invented the Pearson’s product—moment correlation coefficient?

 

Fisher Pearson

 

 Pearson Fisher

 

 Karl Fisher

 

 Karl Pearson

 

Question 18The correlation between variable X and variable Y is represented by which of the following?

 

Rx / y

 

 rx(y)

 

 R(xy)2

 

 rxy

 

Question 19If you wanted to compute the correlation between one nominal-level variable and one interval-level variable, which type of correlation should you use?

 

phi

 

 point biserial

 

 Pearson

 

 Spearman rank

 

Question 20Which of the following correlations represents a weak relationship?

 

 -0.46

 

 -0.86

 

 -0.26

 

 -0.66

 

Question 21When writing a research hypothesis, what type of letters are used?

 

Latin (English)

 

 Greek

 

 Roman

 

 Arabic

 

Question 22                   The hypothesis that posits no relationship between the variables in your study is the ______

 

nondirectional hypothesis

 

 directional hypothesis

 

 research hypothesis

 

 null hypothesis

 

Question 23Which of the following represents a research hypothesis?

 

H1: μ1 > μ2

 

 H0: μ1 = μ2

 

 H1: X1 < X2

 

 H1: X1 = X2

 

Question 24Having a large degree of sampling error does NOT affect generalizability.

 

True

 

 False

 

Question 25A hypothesis that reflects the difference between groups but does NOT specify the direction of the difference is a(an) ______.

 

 directional research hypothesis

 

 null hypothesis

 

 error hypothesis

 

 nondirectional research hypothesis

 

 

 

Question 26What does generalizability mean?

 

Results apply only to the sample studied.

 

 The sample does not represent the population.

 

 Sampling error is high.

 

 Results may be applied to the population studied.

 

Question 27           If you are unsure whether the null or research hypothesis is true, you can assume that the research hypothesis is true.

 

 True

 

 False

 

Question 28Which of the following symbols represents the first research hypothesis?

 

 μ1

 

 H1

 

 X1

 

 H0

 

Question 29The null hypothesis refers to which of the following?

 

 multiple samples

 

 the sample

 

 the population

 

 multiple populations

 

 Question 30If you were to hypothesize that there is a relationship between reaction time and problem-solving ability, you would have a ______.

 

nondirectional research hypothesis

 

 hypothesis type that cannot be determined

 

 null hypothesis

 

 directional research hypothesis

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