SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODS- TEST 1 (CHAPTERS 1-4 UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS

SOCIAL RESEARCH METHODS- TEST 1 (CHAPTERS 1-4
UPDATED ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS

Question:
1. a systematic process of inquiry applied to learn something about our social world
Answer:
Research Methods

Question:
2. Occurs when we make observations without any systematic process for observing or assessing accuracy
of what we observed
Answer:
informal observation

Question:
3. Occurs when we see only those patterns that we want to see or when we assume that only the patterns
we have experienced directly exist.
Answer:
Selective Observation

Question:
4. Occurs when we assume that broad patterns exist even when our observations have been limited.
Answer:
Overgeneralization

Question:
5. a socially defined source of knowledge that might shape our beliefs about what is true and what is not
true
Answer:
authority

Question:
6. repeating a research study to test and either confirm or question the findings of an earlier study
Answer:
Replication

Question:
7. inherited culture and socialization
Answer:
tradition

Question:
8. the foundations of social science are ______ and ______

, Answer:
logic, observation

Question:
9. the "______" does not "______" the rule
Answer:
exception, prove

Question:
10. an analytic philosophy concerning the nature of reality
Answer:
ontology

Question:
11. an analytic philosophy concerning how we know what we know
Answer:
Epistemology

Question:
12. our _______ perspectives shape our beliefs about the nature of reality, or what "is"
Answer:
ontological

Question:
13. our _______ perspectives shapes our beliefs about the best ways to uncover knowledge
Answer:
epistemological

Question:
14. a way of explanation, a mapping out of the why and how of the social phenomenon being studied
Answer:
theory

Question:
15. mapping out a topic that may warrant further study later
Answer:
exploratory

Question:
16. describing the state of social affairs
Answer:
descriptive

Question:
17. providing reasons for phenomena, in terms of causal relationships