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CJ research methods
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1. Lynn assumed that because she felt that all teens were delinquents that her teen neighbor was also a delinquent. This is an example of _ | overgeneralization |
| ______is choosing to look only at things that are in accordance with our preferences or beliefs. | selective observation |
| If a person were to use their five senses (i.e., seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting, or smelling) to learn about the social world, then they are engaging in the _____process. | reasoning |
| Eric, a graduate student, learned that a program to prevent violence was not working because it was not implemented the way that it was intended. Eric engaged in which type of social science research? | evaluation research |
| A researcher examined newspapers to find out the amount of ads devoted to alcoholic beverages. Which type of research method did this researcher use? | content analysis |
| 6. The most versatile research method is _ | Surveys |
| Whereas______ relies on logical and systematic methods to answer questions,_______ is based on claims that may be touted as "scientifcally proven." | science; pseudoscience |
| Which of the following types of research would be used to answer this type of research question: The relationship between youth violence and substance abuse - what is going on here? | exploratory research |
| Which statement about quantitative and qualitative research methods is true? | The qualitative data can be converted to quantitative data. |
| Today's pseudoscience could be yesterday's science. | True |
| If time is limited, questions that involve long-term change may not be | feasible |
| Journals that choose articles for publication after they have been peer reviewed by other social scientists are referred to as | refereed journals |
| Which platform provides scholarly journal articles along with technical reports, theses, books, and other types of documents? | Google Scholar |
| The first stage of the review process is to | assess each article separately |
| A research assistant found that as an individual's self-control increased, their criminal activity decreased. This is an example of what type of relationship between self-control and criminal activity? | negative relationship |
| Crime is lower in those communities where the police patrol on foot. This is an example of a _ | hypothesis |
| If a graduate student develops a connection between social theory and data by first collecting the data and then developing a theory that explains the patterns in the data, then they are employing which strategy? | inductive reasoning |
| One of the most important requirements of theory is that it be | falsifiable |
| The _____ of a study is the extent to which it can be used to inform us about persons, places, or events that were not studied. | generalizability |
| _____refers to the truthfulness of an assertion that A causes B. | Causal validity |
| Which of the following describes the principle of beneficence best? | minimizing possible harms and maximizing benefits. |
| The purpose of the IRB is to | review research proposals involving human participants |
| Confidentiality must be maintained for individual research participants unless | it is voluntarily and explicitly waived |
| Which of the following best describes deception? | when subjects are misled about research procedures to determine how they would react to the treatment if they were not research subjects |
| To assess the validity of a researcher's conclusions and the ethics of their procedures, you need to | know exactly how the research was conducted |
| Meeting the justice principle established by the Belmont Report entails | distributing benefits and risks of research fairly |
| The Nuremburg War Crime Trials were a defining event for the protection of participants because | they exposed horrific medical experiments conducted by Nazi doctors |
| According to federal regulations, the term _ is defined as "a systematic investigation.. designed to develop or contribute to generalizable knowledge." | research |
| When research is reviewed concerning the prisoner population, the IRB must include | a member knowledgeable about the prison population |
| he issue of "informed consent" is handled differently for research with children because | children can legally provide their own consent to participate in a study children cannot legally provide their own consent to participate in a study |
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