Methods and Research

A. interviews
B. participant observation
C. experiments
D. content analysis
E. surveys

A. internal consistency
B. correlation
C. theory
D. time order
E. elimination of spuriousness

A. Coding
B. Conceptualization
C. Factoring
D. Classification
E. Enumeration

A. surveys
B. ethnography
C. field research
D. secondary research
E. experiments

A. operational definition
B. quantitative theorem
C. theory
D. hypothesis
E. scale

A. formulating the problem
B. selecting a research method
C. developing a hypothesis
D. evaluation of the results
E. data collection

A. recognized that it is impossible for scholars to prevent their personal values from influencing their work
B. stressed that researchers had to maintain the confidentiality of their subjects
C. emphasized that under no conditions could a researcher allow his or her personal feelings to influence the interpretation of data
D. all of the above

A. the control groups
B. the representative group
C. the experimental group
D. none of the above

A. administers a naira to every fifth woman who enters a business office
B. examines the attitudes of residents of a city by interviewing every twentieth name in the city’s telephone book
C. studies the attitudes of Democratic voters by choosing every tenth name found on a city’s list of registered Democrats
D. None of the above

A. observation research
B. a survey
C. content analysis
D. an experiment