FRHD 3070 Midterm 1 Questions with Detailed Verified Answers

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FRHD 3070 Midterm 1 Questions with
Detailed Verified Answers

Question: What is the benefit to being an informed consumer?

Ans✅ ✅: You are able to know the difference between good and bad research

Question: Producers create __________ knowledge

Ans✅ ✅: New

Question: What is social research?

Ans✅ ✅: Systematically collecting data to produce knowledge

- a process in which people combine a set of principles, outlooks, and ideas

Question: Explain the authority source and give an example.

Ans✅ ✅: You believe what is presented is true because an expert says it

- Dr. Phil

- Cathy Somers

- Tom Cruise

- Dr. Oz

Question: Explain the tradition source and give an example.

Ans✅ ✅: Passing down traditions, generally seen in family settings

- Using the same apple pie recipe, because thats how its always been done

- Special drinks for cold remedy

Question: Explain the common sense source and give an example.

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Ans✅ ✅: Being logical and rational, however there are usually contradictory cliches.

- opposites attract / birds of a feather flock together

Question: Explain the personal experience source and give an example.

Ans✅ ✅: Since I experienced it, it must be true

- divorce has major negative impacts because my parents had a bad divorce

Question: What are the 4 errors of personal experience?

Ans✅ ✅: - overgeneralization (falsely assume it applies to other situations)

- selective observation

- premature closure

- halo effect (when we let the prestige of something rub off onto other areas)

Question: Overgeneralization

Ans✅ ✅: an error that people often make when using personal experience as an
alternative to science for aacquiring knowledge. It occurs when some evidence
supports a belief, but a person falsely assumes that it applies to many other situations

Question: Selective Observation

Ans✅ ✅: The tendency to take notice of certain people or events based on past
experience or attitudes, they seek out evidence that confirms what you already believe
- YOU IGNORE THINGS THAT CONTRADICT YOU

Question: Premature Closure

Ans✅ ✅: an error that is often made when using personal experience as an
alternative to science for acquiring knowledge. It occurs when a person feels her or she
has the answers and does not need to listen, seek information or raise questions longer

Question: Halo Effect

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Ans✅ ✅: occurs when a person overgeneralizes rom what he or she accepts as being
highly positive or prestigious and lets its favourable impression rub off on other areas

Question: Data

Ans✅ ✅: the empirical evidence or information that a person gathers carefully
according to established rules or procedures; it can be qualitative and quantitative

Question: empirical evidence

Ans✅ ✅: the observations that people experience through their senses (can be
direct or indirect)

Question: What is the anatomy of an empirical research article?

Ans✅ ✅: Introduction

Methodology

Research

Discussion

References

Appendices and supplemental materials

Question: Values

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Ans✅ ✅: Sometimes think research is value free



Always have a sense of right or wrong




Try and be as objective as possible




Values influence the research process

Question: Types of reasoning

Ans✅ ✅: deductive and inductive

Question: Induction

Ans✅ ✅: an approach to inquiry of social theory in which one begins with concrete
empirical details and then works toward abstract ideas or general principles



Moving from something very specific to something general



Going from observation to pattern (on a graph, having just dots vs drawing a line)

Question: Deduction

Ans✅ ✅: an approach to inquiry or social theory in which one begins with abstract
ideas and principles and then works toward concrete, empirical evidence to test the
ideas



Compare hypothesis and observations, is my hypothesis supported or not