A) Have a clearly articulated hypothesis
B) Look for evidence that could prove wrong the theory being tested
C) Be able to deduce the predicted outcome of the study
D) All of the above
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A) A parole officer obtains urine specimens from several parolees and has them analyzed for evidence of substance abuse.
B) Guards in a prisoner-of-war camp analyze the out-going mail of prisoners to determine if an escape attempt is being plotted.
C) A supervisor of graduate student teachers administers a questionnaire to students to determine the effectiveness of student-teachers.
D) The director of a day care center observes and records the interactions among the children to identify potentially aggressive ones.
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A) Latent content
B) Manifest content
C) Validity
D) Reliability
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A) participant observation
B) naturalistic observation
C) survey
D) case study
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A) means the same as method
B) includes the design of the study
C) describes the logical plan of the study
D) describes the steps in carrying out the design
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A) little is known about the group
B) studying a group that is isolated from the population
C) the group's behavior is generally not accessible to public scrutiny
D) all of these
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A) case study
B) naturalistic
C) observational
D) archival
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A) Formal
B) Flexible
C) Deductive
D) Hypothesis driven
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A) Archival
B) Participant-Observer
C) Survey
D) Case Study
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A) No attempt is made to manipulate an independent variable.
B) The researcher cannot assign subjects to groups.
C) Data collection procedures often compromise some degree of control.
D) The researcher is unable to specify the probability of a subject being included in the sample.
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A) is mostly for inexperienced researchers
B) is required for all studies
C) helps find the bugs in a design
D) reduces the credibility of the later study because the researcher has tested the design in advance
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A) unobtrusive observation
B) latent content
C) physical trace
D) hermeneutics
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A) experimental
B) correlational
C) archival
D) case study
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A) should be more formal and deductive than other research
B) is to be avoided in favor of gathering data and generating hypotheses
C) should be done before the data are collected
D) None of these are true.
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A) the exact steps in dealing with a participant
B) the safeguards taken to keep the participant from feeling awkward
C) another way to describe the procedure
D) another word for the proposal
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A) Latent content
B) Manifest content
C) Validity
D) Reliability
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A) survey
B) participant-observer study
C) narrative case study
D) naturalistic observation study
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