Sociology 201 Final Examination
The following are the multiple-choice questions that will be asked onCrib Sheet
1. Which of the following is NOT essential to the classical experiment?
2. In an experiment, the "stimulus" is another term for the:
3. In a lengthy experiment, some of the subjects figure out what
the study is about
and change their behavior accordingly. This is an example of
the problem of internal
invalidity called:
4. A prison tests the impact of family visits on morale, and morale
seems to improve.
However, the improvement is really a function of the kitchen getting
a new chef.
This is an example of the problem of internal invalidity called:
5. The Solomon Four-Group Design consists of:
6. The problem of external invalidity means that:
7. Experimentation closely reflects which of the following:
8. Experiments are best suited to:
9. Which of the following is essential to a survey?
10. While of the following is likely to produce the highest completion rate?
11. Which of the following would be best for asking sensitive questions?
12. What does CATI stand for?
13. A question asked of some respondents but not others, based
on their reponses
to an earlier question, is called a:
14. What is the minimum acceptable return rate for a mail survey?
15. A matrix question uses:
16. Which of the following is regarded as the chief shortcoming
of online surveys
at this time?
17. Field research is primarily an example of:
18. Which of the following paradigms is most consciously inductive,
committed to
deriving theories from observations, without theoretical preconceptions?
19. Which of the following paradigms most explicitly uses individual
experiences
as an avenue to understanding established social structure?
20. Which of the following paradigms is most committed to putting
the subjects
of the research in charge of its design?
21. Which of the following would be true of qualitative interviewing,
in contrast
to survey research interviewing?
22. Which of the following would be the best use of focus groups?
23. Compared to survey research, field research is typically:
24. Who among the following is most closely associated with the
institutional
ethnography paradigm?
25. Which of the following would be considered an example of unobtrusive
research?
26. Which of the following is true about the relative validity
and reliability
when measuring complex concepts by way of latent or manifest content?
27. Which of the following is an example of manifest content?
28. The presentation on The History of the History of Chapman
indicated that
as of 1942, the official beginning date for Chapman was:
29. What was the unit of analysis in Durkheimís study of Suicide?
30. Max Weberís The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
is an
example of:
31. Which of the following would be the best example of Weberís "ideal type"?
32. Weberís use of the term, verstehen, is best translated as:
33. What was Twende na Wakati , whose evaluation was discussed
in the
textbook?
34. Which of the following was discovered in the evaluation of
whether
the death penalty was racially discriminatory?
35. In the evaluation of driversí education, which of the following
was
discovered?
36. Which of these techniques would be appropriate for evaluation research?
37. When Paul Steel evaluated a program in which pregnant drug-users
were
allowed to substitute rehabilitation programs for prosecution, he found
newly
arrested female drug-users being advised by older inmates to:
38. In the 1932 Tuskegee, Alabama, syphillis experiments:
39. In William Baileyís classical study of capital punishment
as a deterent to
murder, he discovered:
40. Donella Meadows and her colleagues studied the future of global
resources
and pollution using what technique?
41. Which of the following ethical rules is most at risk in a
research project
that asks subjects to report on times they discriminated against someone
based
on their ethnicity.
42. Which of the following ethical rules is most at risk in the
professor
requires students to complete a questionnaire that will be part of
a research
project the professor is conducting.
43. Who of the following undertook a controversial study of homosexual
behavior
in public places?
44. Who of the following undertook a controversial study of authoritarian
human obedience?
45. Who of the following published a controversial study on the
IQ scores of
blacks and whites?
46. Project Camelot was a government research undertaking to study:
47. Gunnar Myrdal, a Swedish sociologist, is best known in the
US for the
impact of his research on:
48. Most colleges have Institutional Review Boards, which have the job of:
49. Which of the following would be the most appropriate question
for a social
science research project to address?
50. What is this course?
a) Sociology 201
(Hint: pick a)