Exam 2: Planning a Study

Government documents are very rare (often protected by Homeland Security rules),and are typically not a source that a researcher would use in a literature review.

Scholarly journals typically do not require peer review before publishing research.

What questions should you ask when taking notes while reading material for your literature review?

What is not needed for a causal explanation?

______ types of research are more likely to appear in a book format because they are the results of long complex studies.

A(n)______ is a tentative statement of a relationship between two variables.

The unit of analysis

Researchers test hypotheses in two ways: a straightforward way and

A(n)______ study starts with a summary idea or an "educated guess" of what a researcher thinks might occur and then moves toward specific,observable evidence to test or verify the ideas.

Micro level and macro level are terms used in

Which of the following is NOT true for quantitative research?

A study that is deductive starts with evidence and then slowly builds toward generalizations or summary ideas.

Which of the following topics is an appropriate topic for social research?

A cause variable is the independent variable,and the result effect variable is a dependent variable.A third type of variable,______,appears in complex relations and shows a link between the independent and dependent variables.

Using ______ data,a researcher rearranges,examines,and discusses numbers by using charts,tables,and statistics to see patterns.

When a researcher reads a scholarly journal,he or she should

A topic that is appropriate for social research generalizes social patterns that operate in aggregates and are empirically observable.

Define aggregates in the context of choosing a research topic.

______research's main goal is to test the hypothesis that the researcher started with.

List two questions that help identify the independent variable.