Chapter 12 Quiz

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. Replication is important:

Because dissemination to a larger audience creates more acceptance of a finding correct incorrect

Because control variables are used correct incorrect

Because the findings from different studies can be used to identify new independent variables correct incorrect

Because it allows us to determine if a particular finding can be reproduced correct incorrect

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. Specifying the research population is important for all of the reasons except:

The research population influences the generalizability of the eventual results correct incorrect

The research population influences the number of observations that can be included in the dataset correct incorrect

The research population is the set of all possible observations based on a particular characteristic within a particular unit of analysis correct incorrect

The researcher should pick a sample partially outside the research population to have a control correct incorrect

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. What is the process through which work is distributed to a larger audience?

Dissemination correct incorrect

Participation correct incorrect

Distribution correct incorrect

Dispensation correct incorrect

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. A Call for Papers is:

How work is distributed to a larger audience correct incorrect

The general invitation to present research at a conference correct incorrect

The person who reads the full papers after they have been submitted correct incorrect

The process through which we dissect information in order to assess how conclusions were reached. correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is the correct format for a research question?

The Effect of IVs on DV among research population correct incorrect

The Effect of DV on IVs among research population correct incorrect

The Effect of the Research Population on the IV correct incorrect

The Effect of the Research Population on the DV correct incorrect

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. Process Tracing is:

The general invitation to present research at a conference correct incorrect

The person who reads the full papers after they have been submitted correct incorrect

The process through which we dissect information in order to assess how conclusions were reached. correct incorrect

Used to provide evidence for the causal relationship between the independent and dependent variables in a particular case correct incorrect

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. You should not ______ the information you use as evidence for a case study

Generalize correct incorrect

Pay attention to correct incorrect

Cherry pick correct incorrect

Process trace correct incorrect

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. Research projects generally draw their data from

one source correct incorrect

multiple sources correct incorrect

no sources correct incorrect

Professors correct incorrect

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. A discussant is:

The person who reads and provides comments for the full papers after they have been submitted to a conference correct incorrect

The person who organizes the panel correct incorrect

The invitation to present research at a conference correct incorrect

The professor correct incorrect

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. Critical analysis is the process by which

we gather information for our research proposal. correct incorrect

identify outliers that are not significant for our research. correct incorrect

we create case studies to test our hypothesis. correct incorrect

we dissect information in order to assess how conclusions were reached. correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is crucial in helping you develop the theory you will write to explain why the independent and dependent variables you eventually choose are expected to be correlated to each other?

Literature correct incorrect

Hypothesis correct incorrect

Discussant correct incorrect

Professor correct incorrect

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. Which of the following serve an important purpose by holding certain factors constant while the independent effect of other variables is being assessed?

Similar Variables correct incorrect

Control Variables correct incorrect

Dependent Variables correct incorrect

Weak Variables correct incorrect

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. The discussant's primary tasks are all of the following except:

summarize all of the papers on the panel correct incorrect

identify common themes among the individual papers correct incorrect

rank the papers based on their contribution to the literature correct incorrect

direct questions and helpful comments to each of the authors. correct incorrect

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. Who is the person that normally organizes a panel?

Discussant correct incorrect

Chair correct incorrect

Professor correct incorrect

Board Member correct incorrect

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. Some of the possible future uses for your research paper could include all of the following except:

Presenting it at a conference correct incorrect

Including it in an application for graduate school correct incorrect

Using it to 100% "prove" a hypothesis correct incorrect

Publishing it correct incorrect

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. Critical Analysis skills are

Only useful within academia correct incorrect

Only useful within the field of political science correct incorrect

Can help you critically examine information to which you are exposed on a regular basis correct incorrect

Not important to develop when reading and conducting research correct incorrect

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. If the results you generate are different when attempting to replicate a finding you should consider all of the following except:

whether both datasets are based on random probability samples correct incorrect

whether one dataset has a larger probability samples than the other correct incorrect

whether one dataset was collected at a different time than another dataset correct incorrect

whether you prefer results from one dataset over another correct incorrect

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. Changes to the project design you learned could include all of the following except:

the subtraction of the literature review correct incorrect

the addition of dependent variables to the analysis correct incorrect

only using quantitative methods without including qualitative methods correct incorrect

only using qualitative methods without using quantitative methods correct incorrect

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. In order to be able to comfortably accept a study's conclusion it is important to know all of the following about the study except:

The study's main question correct incorrect

How many authors contributed to the study correct incorrect

How the conclusions of the study can be generalized correct incorrect

Why the study's indicators were chosen as measurements for concepts correct incorrect

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. When following a similar system study design, your conclusion should cover all of the following except:

Were you able to support your hypotheses with either the quantitative or the qualitative analyses? correct incorrect

What should future research concentrate on? correct incorrect

Where did the data you use come from and for what time period was each variable collected? correct incorrect

What implications do your findings have in a general sense? correct incorrect