Sociology 201 Final Examination

Crib 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, versthen, 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)