Exam 2: Theory Development

Cause and effect is revealed with which research method?

Because they provide more anonymity to her respondents,Tanisha should plan to use which of the following in her research study?

The social scientific approach utilizes ______ methods in order to make generalizations about human behavior.

When every member of a population has an equal chance of being selected for a research study,the sample is known as a/an ______.

Deductive theory is generally associated with which of the following?

Social scientists refer to patterns of communication that hold true across groups of people,over time,and in different contexts as ______.

Identify and explain two research methods.Then compare and contrast the two methods based on the strengths and weaknesses of each.

The ______ research method is naturalistic and emergent because participants are in their natural environment.

The humanist approach views truth as ______;whereas the social scientific approach treats truth as ______.

Deductive theory development occurs before inductive theory development.

Cheri plans to record and then analyze the conversations between and among members of a group of people she has chosen for her research study.Cheri's work may also be known as ______.

Alonzo will be conducting an ethnography by observing the actions of a group of people with whom he has never interacted and wants to observe their actions without interacting at all with any of the members of the culture.Alonzo's plan,then,is to act as which of the following?

A text is ______.

Which of the following uses verbal descriptions of communicative phenomena?

Identify and explain the three different types of ethnography based on the researcher's role.Explain a benefit and drawback for each type.

Masculinity is considered a variable because people can be highly masculine,moderately masculine,non-masculine,and so on.

Survey research is the only way to determine how someone thinks or feels about something.