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Student Study Guide Quiz

The Research Process - Chapter 5 - Student Study Guide Quiz

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Question 1:

Research objectives are used to guide research that seeks to describe, rather than explain, what is happening.
a) True
b) False

Question 2:

A concept is a type of variable that varies in amount or quality.
a) True
b) False

Question 3:

The primary function of any variable is to enable measurement of the changes in its corresponding abstract concept.
a) True
b) False

Question 4:

The activity of finding measurable variables for concepts is called operationalization.
a) True
b) False

Question 5:

In its operational form, a hypothesis describes a relationship between concepts.
a) True
b) False

Question 6:

It is still necessary to operationalize the concepts in a research objective even when there will not be independent and dependent concepts and variables.
a) True
b) False

Question 7:

The act of doing research involves reducing the ________ to empirical questions.
a) hypothesis
b) research objectives
c) conceptual problems
d) categorical questions

Question 8:

Empirical questions are the questions about ‘things’ that can be ________.
a) measured
b) counted
c) recorded
d) a and b above
e) all of the above

Question 9:

Variables have ________ that are observable and measurable.
a) answers
b) questions
c) states
d) data

Question 10:

________ defines a concept in terms that can be measured.
a) Validity
b) Reliability
c) Operationalization
d) Theory

Question 11:

At the operational level, a hypothesis asserts a relationship between ________.
a) concepts
b) variables
c) ideas
d) theories

Question 12:

At the operational level, a hypothesis asserts a relationship between ________.
a) concepts
b) variables
c) ideas
d) theories