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R & vanR Chapter 1 Quiz

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Please answer each of the following questions to help you self-assess your understanding of "Chapter 1: Research in the Real World" (Remler & Van Ryzin, 2010)
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2. Please Match the Term to Its Definition *This question is required.
Space Cell Pursuit of scientific knowledge that has no immediate practical applicationAnswer to "what if?" questions. Contrasts with descriptive research.A process of scientific resoning in which theories lead to hypotheses (predictions) that are compared with data (observation).Theory of knowledge, or ways of knowing.Limited to certain times, places, or contexts.Pursuit of Knowledge to help in some practical problem or needEthical research norm that dictates that people who participate in research are not harmed and they should benefit from the researchUnprocessed or unaggregated observations – raw data.Research to describe how the world is. Contrasts with causal research.
Descriptive research
Applied research
Deduction
Beneficence
Contingent
Basic research
Data
Causal research
Epistemology
3. Please Match the Term to Its Definition *This question is required.
Space Cell Social science research that patterns itself after the traditional scientific method of the natural sciences.A process of scientific reasoning in which systematic observation leads to the development of theory and hypotheses.Collecting new data to provide a description or explanation of the world.Requires consideration of equity among subjects and fairness in regard to who in society becomes a research participantResearch to determine the impact of a program or intervention.The process in which an organization collects information to measure how well it is doing.Process in which studies or proposals are reviewed by a group of peers who render judgment.The original collection or analysis of data to answer a new research question or to produce new knowledge.The extent to which the results of a study project to a wider group of context of interest. Also called external validity.
Justice
Primary data
Performance measurement
Generalizatbility
Induction
Primary research
Positivism
Peer review
Evaluation research
4. Please Match the Term to Its Definition *This question is required.
Space Cell How two different variables covary or are related.Techniques and procedures that produce research evidence.Researchers who insist that social research start with strong theories and test these with emperical predictions.When two variables presumed to be causally related in fact are not. Any relationship is caused by due to a common cause.The search for published sources describing the results of research or information provided by others.Dictates that people used as the subjects of research provide informed consent and are not corerced into participating in research.Data collected by others, such existing surveys, records or transcripts.A way of knowing that that is based upon observation, logical explanation, predicition, openess, and skepticism.An approach that favors empiricism and applying the scientific method to social phenomena.
Research methods
Scientific method
Respect for persons
Scientific realism
Structuralists
Secondary data
Secondary research
Relationship
Spurious correlation
5. Which of the following represents a way research has become a part of modern public policy and management? *This question is required.
6. Primary research includes: *This question is required.
7. The following is an example of a causal research question: *This question is required.
8. Someone who commissions research must be able to: *This question is required.
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