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