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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 Research to describe how the world is. Contrasts with causal research.Ethical research norm that dictates that people who participate in research are not harmed and they should benefit from the researchPursuit of Knowledge to help in some practical problem or needA process of scientific resoning in which theories lead to hypotheses (predictions) that are compared with data (observation).Unprocessed or unaggregated observations – raw data.Theory of knowledge, or ways of knowing.Pursuit of scientific knowledge that has no immediate practical applicationAnswer to "what if?" questions. Contrasts with descriptive research.Limited to certain times, places, or contexts.
Data
Causal research
Deduction
Descriptive research
Contingent
Basic research
Beneficence
Epistemology
Applied research
3. Please Match the Term to Its Definition *This question is required.
Space Cell The extent to which the results of a study project to a wider group of context of interest. Also called external validity.Research to determine the impact of a program or intervention.The original collection or analysis of data to answer a new research question or to produce new knowledge.Requires consideration of equity among subjects and fairness in regard to who in society becomes a research participantCollecting new data to provide a description or explanation of the world.The process in which an organization collects information to measure how well it is doing.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.Process in which studies or proposals are reviewed by a group of peers who render judgment.
Evaluation research
Peer review
Primary data
Positivism
Primary research
Induction
Performance measurement
Justice
Generalizatbility
4. Please Match the Term to Its Definition *This question is required.
Space Cell A way of knowing that that is based upon observation, logical explanation, predicition, openess, and skepticism.The search for published sources describing the results of research or information provided by others.Data collected by others, such existing surveys, records or transcripts.Dictates that people used as the subjects of research provide informed consent and are not corerced into participating in research.When two variables presumed to be causally related in fact are not. Any relationship is caused by due to a common cause.Techniques and procedures that produce research evidence.Researchers who insist that social research start with strong theories and test these with emperical predictions.How two different variables covary or are related.An approach that favors empiricism and applying the scientific method to social phenomena.
Respect for persons
Scientific realism
Structuralists
Relationship
Spurious correlation
Secondary data
Secondary research
Research methods
Scientific method
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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