A. sample
B. respondents
C. focus group
D. population
Methods and Research
An experiment can be defined as…………..?
A. an attempt to test a hypothesis under controlled conditions
B. a piece of research conducted in a laboratory
C. a piece of research trying out new methods
D. an attempt to deceive participants about the research’s true purpose
An instance of focused interaction is called……………..?
A. a meeting
B. an event
C. a moment
D. an Encounter
s that are relevant to some respondents may irrelevant to others are known as…………..?
A. double barreled questions
B. leading questions
C. contingency questions
D. Matrix questions
The rate of rate of return or a mailed naire is usually………….?
A. very high
B. it can be both A and C
C. very low
D. None of these
The first step in any sociological research project is to………….?
A. collect data
B. define the problem
C. review previous research
D. formulate a hypothesis
In most instances how well a student does on a test is determined by how much the student studies for it in this example studying for an exam is a (n) ?
A. correlation
B. independent variable
C. dependent variable
D. sample
The study of the interracial friendships conducted by the Tom Smith who heads up the General Social Survey is an example of…………?
A. observation research
B. a survey
C. content analysis
D. an experiment
Which of the following would be an example of a random sample? A researcher………….?
A. administers a naira to every fifth woman who enters a business office
B. examines the attitudes of residents of a city by interviewing every twentieth name in the city’s telephone book
C. studies the attitudes of Democratic voters by choosing every tenth name found on a city’s list of registered Democrats
D. None of the above
Which one of the following is exposed to an independent variable ?
A. the control groups
B. the representative group
C. the experimental group
D. none of the above