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Higher Education

Social Research Methods, Fourth Canadian Edition: Chapter 03

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the Submit my answers button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:


a) people who carry the burden of risk in research
b) those conducting the research
c) outcomes that are new to what is currently known
d) preventing participants from going off on a tangent

Question 2:


a) increase the knowledge base of academia
b) that academic freedom will not be limited by any university
c) do no harm
d) do not risk exposing the research organization to civil liability

Question 3:


a) balancing the risk of harm to participants over the potential benefits of the research
b) considering the civil ramifications of conducting research as a priority
c) knowing the identity of all research subject before making a determination
d) limiting the number of research subjects in a given research project

Question 4:


a) anxiety
b) the subject might deceive the researcher
c) embarrassment
d) the subject will be deceived

Question 5:


a) the acquisition of knowledge
b) academic freedom
c) improvement of the human condition
d) the welfare of research subjects

Question 6:


a) have the authority to reject a research
b) are a final authority, whose decisions cannot be overturned
c) do not approve research projects until after the participants are known
d) will oversee the actual collection of research data throughout the research project

Question 7:


a) is of little consequence to privately-funded researchers in Canada
b) has no impact on funding and sponsorship of research projects in Canada
c) cannot set restrictions on a research project; they can only decide to approve or refuse
d) can completely prevent a research project

Question 8:


a) informed
b) coerced
c) free
d) ongoing

Question 9:


a) the researcher must get consent from at least 85 per cent of the participants before conducting the research
b) consent must be given by using a signed consent form
c) consent may be obtained verbally
d) the research ethics board only needs to approve written consent processes

Question 10:


a) all participants must be given exactly the same information about the research project
b) the researcher must approach all people entering the research setting to gain their consent for observations made during the research
c) the research cannot be reported until consent to release the data has been obtained
d) participants that “happen” into a research setting are not a concern for the Research Ethics Board because they are not identified research subjects

Question 11:


a) the purpose of the study
b) the deception and its purpose before the research
c) the deception and its purpose after the research
d) the harms they have suffered after the research

Question 12:


a) does not always have to be brought to the attention of the Research Ethics Board
b) is only a concern for the qualitative researcher
c) must always be admitted to everyone who was observed during the research project
d) subjugates the research subject

Question 13:


a) must always be the disclosed to participants before the research project begins
b) must always be disclosed to participants after the research project begins
c) may lead to research participants feeling pressured to answer or act in certain ways
d) should never be allowed if the sponsor is a large private corporation

Question 14:


a) show that research subjects should have the right to leave a study at any time
b) attempt to determine if placing ordinary people in these roles would lead to stereotypical prison behaviour
c) proves that ordinary people are always able to separate their own identities from that of “prisoner” or “guard”
d) shows that REBs are absolutely necessary because researchers may be unaware that their work raises ethical concerns

Question 15:


a) unacceptable if the participants are paid for the risks they would not otherwise accept
b) acceptable under any conditions
c) unacceptable under any conditions
d) acceptable when the participants want to cover costs of their participation (transport expenses, etc.)

Question 16:


a) True
b) False

Question 17:


a) True
b) False

Question 18:


a) True
b) False

Question 19:


a) True
b) False

Question 20:


a) True
b) False

Question 21:


a) True
b) False

Question 22:


a) True
b) False

Question 23:


a) True
b) False

Question 24:


a) True
b) False

Question 25:


a) True
b) Flase

Question 26:


a) Ture
b) False

Question 27:


a) Ture
b) False

Question 28:


a) True
b) False

Question 29:


a) True
b) False

Question 30:


a) True
b) False