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| Which of the following sets of items are attributes of a variable? |
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| Cognitive therapy, behavioral therapy, psychodynamic therapy |
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| You are a social worker in a child guidance clinic. Over the last 4 sessions you have noticed thatone of your clients, a 10 year old boy with attention deficit disorder, seems to be much less responsive in sessions than usual. You start wondering if perhaps he isn't taking his medication, or if maybe there are new family problems that you do not know about. You decide to keep observing his behavior over the next few sessions before hypothesizing about what might be causing his behavior change. This is an example of: |
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| "Type of therapy is related to treatment outcome" is an example of a: |
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| Non-directional hypothesis |
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| In the ollowing hypothesis: "Participation in a job skills class improves subsequent earnings of participants," participation in a job skills class is the _________ and subsequent earnings is the _________. |
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| Independent variable, Dependent Variable |
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| If a researcher wanted to know why there was a decreas in the number of murders in New York City in 1996, the researcher would design an |
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| You decide to measure the variable, "feelings toward national health care insurance" which categories strongly agree, agree, indifferent, disagree and strongly disagree. You are using the ______ level of measurement. |
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| Asking subjects "Did your children go to high school and college?" after they told you that they have no children violates which of the following criteria in question construction |
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A & B only are correct
(Avoid Double barreled questions and Questions should be relevant.) |
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| Which of the following best describes the term "methodology?" |
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| The science of finding out |
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| Which of the following statements is true about the scientific method? |
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| All knowledge is considered provisional |
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| If a researcher studying current Brown School students enrolled in Research Methods divides the class list of all course sections into social work students, public health students, and dual degree students before taking a random sample of each student group, which of the following sampling strategies would he be using? |
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| When a social worker chooses and intervention simply because it was an intervention used at her practicum site, on what form of knowledge is the social worker basing her decision? |
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| What is the relationship between lack of sleep and preschoolers' behavior in a study that finds and increase in sleep deprivation is associated with poorer behavior? |
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| What type of variable does the term "grades" represent in the hypothesis, "school breakfast programs for elementary school students result in improved grades and attendance at school?" |
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| Which research purpose would be MOST consistent with a study that investigates the effectiveness of transitional housing for recent parolees? |
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| What type of error would a researcher be committing if he finds that working women with children experience higher levels of stress than working women without children, but then concludes that working men with children also experience higher levels of stress than working men without children? |
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| Which of the following is NOT an operational definition of marital satisfaction? |
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| Amount of marital unhappiness |
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| When an interviewer asks a participatn in a study about federal taxes "Why did you not file a tax return last year?" and records the answer verbatim, what type of question is this? |
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| What would be the element in a sample for a study of walkability among St. Louis Communities that received federal stimulus funding for infrastructure improvements? |
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| What type of relationship between variables is reflected in the statement, "physical activity levels are higher among adults who score higher on a self-esteem scale?" |
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| What term refers to study participants telling the interviewer that they have had an oral cancer screening within the past year because they know they should have done it? |
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| What type of metric is represented by the variable "smoking status" with the attributes "non-smoker/occasional smoker/regular smoker?" |
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| When a researcher asks a series of questions about involvement with a house of worship to measure religiosity, what type of indicator is being used? |
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| Which of the following is NOT an attribute of a good research question? |
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| There should be only one possible acceptable answer to it |
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| What type of sampling strategy would a researcher conducting a qualitative study on why some parents choose not to vaccinate their children be using in the following scenario? First, the researcher interviews one mom that she meets through a local playgroup. Then the researcher asks that woman to give study recriuitment cards to other parents she knows who have not vaccinated their children. |
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| In what section of a peer-reviewed journal article would you expect to find the author's research question stated? |
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| What tpe of relationship has a researcher found if her data anlysis shows that ethnicity is no longer related to HIV/AIDS rates once she controls for socio-economic status (SES)? |
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| What type of metric does the variable "ethnicity" represent? |
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| Which of the following is required in order to use a probability-based sampling strategy? |
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| A statement that predicts a relationship between variables |
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| Variable in the direct causal pathway between 2 other variables |
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| The true population value |
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| A measure applied repeatedly to the same object that yields similar results each time |
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| A researcher using a deductive reasoning approach would develop a hypothesis that she then proceeds to test by making observations in a study (T/F) |
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| The background section of a journal article should synthesize the current state of knowledge about the topic being studied by the researchers(T/F) |
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| The quality of a study's sample is entirely dependent on the sampling strategy used (T/F) |
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| If a measure is reliable, it must also be valid (T/F) |
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| Which of the following is an example of a cross-sectional study? |
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| Gathering information through phone surveys on awareness of a self-help hotline. |
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