SOWK 3002 Exam Review questions and
answers graded A+
Positivism - correct answer ✔✔the belief that knowledge should be derived from scientific
observation
Post-Positivist - correct answer ✔✔Approaches to social work should install the client as an
important site of knowledge
Neoliberal Ideology - correct answer ✔✔wealth accumulated by corporations and individuals
will trickle down to lower income members of society
Marxist Ideology - correct answer ✔✔More power a group has, more ability it has to pursue its
own agenda
Participatory Action Research - correct answer ✔✔engage and empower the community
Aristotle - correct answer ✔✔Father of science and first empiricist
Evidence-based practice - correct answer ✔✔social workers should use knowledge that is
gathered and tested empirically to guide their practice
Thomas Hobbs - correct answer ✔✔Father of empiricism
John Locke - correct answer ✔✔Considered father of empiricism
Context of discovery - correct answer ✔✔elements that play a role in the discovery of theories
, Context of justification - correct answer ✔✔choice of evidence used to argue in favour or
against a theory
Descriptive statistics - correct answer ✔✔describe characteristics or sample of a population
Inferential statistics - correct answer ✔✔show a relationship between two variables or to
generalize findings to a larger population based on sample of cases
variable - correct answer ✔✔A factor that can change in an experiment
values - correct answer ✔✔different measurements that a variable can take
array - correct answer ✔✔an orderly arrangement
frequency distributions - correct answer ✔✔tables that display the number of times a specific
value appears for a particular variable
cumulative frequency distribution - correct answer ✔✔shows the number of items with values
less than or equal to the upper limit of each class
Percentage distribution - correct answer ✔✔a table showing the percentage of observations
falling into each category of the variable
Nominal level - correct answer ✔✔data that is classified into categories and cannot be arranged
in any particular order
answers graded A+
Positivism - correct answer ✔✔the belief that knowledge should be derived from scientific
observation
Post-Positivist - correct answer ✔✔Approaches to social work should install the client as an
important site of knowledge
Neoliberal Ideology - correct answer ✔✔wealth accumulated by corporations and individuals
will trickle down to lower income members of society
Marxist Ideology - correct answer ✔✔More power a group has, more ability it has to pursue its
own agenda
Participatory Action Research - correct answer ✔✔engage and empower the community
Aristotle - correct answer ✔✔Father of science and first empiricist
Evidence-based practice - correct answer ✔✔social workers should use knowledge that is
gathered and tested empirically to guide their practice
Thomas Hobbs - correct answer ✔✔Father of empiricism
John Locke - correct answer ✔✔Considered father of empiricism
Context of discovery - correct answer ✔✔elements that play a role in the discovery of theories
, Context of justification - correct answer ✔✔choice of evidence used to argue in favour or
against a theory
Descriptive statistics - correct answer ✔✔describe characteristics or sample of a population
Inferential statistics - correct answer ✔✔show a relationship between two variables or to
generalize findings to a larger population based on sample of cases
variable - correct answer ✔✔A factor that can change in an experiment
values - correct answer ✔✔different measurements that a variable can take
array - correct answer ✔✔an orderly arrangement
frequency distributions - correct answer ✔✔tables that display the number of times a specific
value appears for a particular variable
cumulative frequency distribution - correct answer ✔✔shows the number of items with values
less than or equal to the upper limit of each class
Percentage distribution - correct answer ✔✔a table showing the percentage of observations
falling into each category of the variable
Nominal level - correct answer ✔✔data that is classified into categories and cannot be arranged
in any particular order
