Exam 3: Studying People

Match the best term to each statement by filling in the letter before the term in the appropriate blank. -____ A form of qualitative research in which a researcher becomes a member of the group being studied.

Match the best term to each statement by filling in the letter before the term in the appropriate blank. -____ A qualitative research method employing an unstructured or semistructured series of questions.

Sociologists often employ rats and other animals in their research to represent human interactions and behaviors.

Match the best term to each statement by filling in the letter before the term in the appropriate blank. -____ A sample in which any available person is included in the study.

Match the best term to each statement by filling in the letter before the term in the appropriate blank. -____ Experiments in which the experiences and behaviors of participants are monitored in a controlled laboratory setting.

Read the following vignette and answer the subsequent questions to the best of your ability. A sociologist is interested in studying the causes of suicide in society. She begins her research by developing a project in which she asks suicide survivors to discuss the reasons for committing suicide, the personal and social conditions that led to their decision to commit the act. In the second project, she examined another researcher's survey data from a national sample of U.S. citizens. Her first set of analysis found that depression is associated with the desire to commit suicide but many people who thought about committing suicide never made any attempt to do so. She also found that people who have experienced a stressful life event, such as a job loss or divorce, were more likely to report the desire to commit suicide. -Overall, this project best exemplifies which of the following research techniques?

An instructor asks you to develop a study of the homeless that will provide a great deal of depth into what it is like to be homeless. Given this mandate, which of the following methods would most likely give the information you need for such a project?

Match the best term to each statement by filling in the letter before the term in the appropriate blank. -____ A type of quantitative research procedure in which investigators control participants' exposure to an independent variable.

Read the following vignette and answer the subsequent questions to the best of your ability. A sociologist is interested in studying the causes of suicide in society. She begins her research by developing a project in which she asks suicide survivors to discuss the reasons for committing suicide, the personal and social conditions that led to their decision to commit the act. In the second project, she examined another researcher's survey data from a national sample of U.S. citizens. Her first set of analysis found that depression is associated with the desire to commit suicide but many people who thought about committing suicide never made any attempt to do so. She also found that people who have experienced a stressful life event, such as a job loss or divorce, were more likely to report the desire to commit suicide. -Which method was employed in the first project? The second?

An instructor developed a study to determine ways of producing more participation in his classes. In one class she provided free donuts everyday of class while in another she gave them nothing. She had her assistant takes notes on the number of comments and questions students made in each class. Which of these classes represent the control group?

Social scientists must always be concerned with ___________ and ___________ to accurately capture the phenomena in questions.

Which of the following types of samples is considered most representative of any given population?

Match the best term to each statement by filling in the letter before the term in the appropriate blank. -____ Variables for which response categories are ordered but the distances between adjacent categories are not necessarily equal.

Match the best term to each statement by filling in the letter before the term in the appropriate blank. -____ When a study yields the same results using the same techniques and data.

Quantitative research includes all of the following except:

Humphries' research on the "tearoom trade" was considered controversial because:

Match the best term to each statement by filling in the letter before the term in the appropriate blank. -____ The larger group of people about whom a researcher seeks to draw conclusions.

Indices and scales are the same concepts.

The research technique called "autoethnograpy" is associated with which social psychological perspective?

You are studying student attitudes toward tobacco and alcohol consumption using a series of items in which respondents were asked to respond using categories ranging from 1 'Strongly agree' to 4 'Strongly disagree'. These items represent which type of variable?