MCQS,TRUE FALSE AND FILL IN THE BLANKS

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MCQS,TRUE FALSE AND FILL IN THE BLANKS

textbook is “Social Research Methods; qualitative and quantitative approaches”6th edition by W. Lawrence Neuman

These questions are from chapter 11. Nonreactive research and secondary analysis.

Lesson 11

1. An example of unobtrusive data collection is(are)

a. an interview with college freshmen to determine why they selected a

particular school

b. a laboratory experiment designed to determine whether people really prefer Pepsi

or Coke

c. a mailed survey designed to discern students’ attitudes toward a planned change in

the school’s calendar

2. Which of the following modes of observation does NOT require the researcher to

intrude to some degree on whatever he or she is studying?

a. Experiments

b. Survey research

c. Complete participant observation

d. Complete observer in field research

e. All of these choices require the researcher to intrude

3. Unobtrusive measures can reduce the problem (s) of

a. the researcher’s impact on the phenomenon being studied

b. invalid operationalization of concepts

c. unreliable measurements

d. corroboration

e. the ecological fallacy

4. Which of the following is (are) illustrative of unobtrusive observations?

a. examining the floor tiles at a museum to determine which exhibits are the most

popular

b. examining the number of beer cans in the university garbage collections to

determine beer consumption patterns

c. examining the wear on the tires of squad cars to determine the extent of police

d. examining the radio dial settings of cars brought in for oil changes to determine

the popularity of radio stations

e. all of these choices illustrate unobtrusive observations

5. If we wanted to determine whether states that pass clean air legislation (no smoking in

public areas) are more likely to enact laws requiring motorcyclists to wear helmets than

are states that had not passed clean air legislation, the unit of analysis would be

a. the individual states

b. the individual act of legislation

c. passage or nonpassage of the clean air legislation

d. the clean air legislation

e. states that passed clean air legislation

6. You are interested in doing a content analysis on the characteristics people seek in a

partner by examining the personals section of three newspapers. Your unit of analysis

is:

a. the three newspapers.

b. The characteristics desired in a partner.

c. The individual ads

d. The personals section of the paper

e. The person who wrote the ad

7. Professor Perlman was interested in comparing two textbooks to determine whether

one used more sexist language than the other. Perlman counted the number of ties a