Deck 3: Research Methods

Question 1

"Truth is found in actions that work." This is a key tenet of

A) Positivism
B) Pragmatism
C) Constructivism
D) Interpretivism

Answer 1

B

Question 2

Daily interaction with persons in an online environment in order to ascertain the participant meanings in that setting is an aspect of

A) Constructivism
B) The Experimental Method
C) Survey Research
D) Positivism
E) Cyberethnography

Answer 2

E

Question 3

"The Media is the Message" is an idea associated with

A) Media Ecology
B) Marshal McLuhan
C) An emphasis in the type of medium being used
D) All of these are true

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Grounding a new research question in the previous findings in that field is referred to as

A) Experimental research
B) The review of literature
C) A double-blind study
D) A function of statistics and parameters

Question 5

Grounded Theory is an approach used in

A) Qualitative research
B) Survey research
C) Experimental research
D) Ethnography

Question 6

"First of all, do no harm" is at the heart of

A) Survey design
B) Media Ecology
C) Research ethics
D) Double-blind studies

Question 7

Big Data" research refers to

A) the tendency to look at large data sets of quantitative data.
B) Grounded theory procedures
C) Experiments
D) None of the above

Question 8

Research findings that are consistent are

A) Valid
B) Ethnographic
C) Ethical
D) Reliable