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Procrastinators will usually ________.

Work on important tasks after valuable time has passed.

Work on tasks that are not priorities

Work on tasks in a haphazard way

All of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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Inductive approach includes the following steps (1) formulating tentative hypotheses about these patterns. (2) formulating a theory that explains the phenomenon in question (3) detecting patterns, (4) making systematic observations

1,2,3,4

4,3,2,1

2,1,3,4

4,3,1,2

Answer

Correct Answer: 4,3,1,2

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Epistemology is the study of the nature and basis of knowledge.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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A discipline’s perspective is the primary means of distinguishing one discipline from another.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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The purpose of a discipline is to interpret reality according to certain prescribed guidelines and provide its members with organizational support.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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An academic discipline is a course that is deemed to be of value in the humanities.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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Disciplines in the category of natural sciences include Psychology, Sociology, and Anthropology.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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Disciplinary perspectives are ______.

Occasionally consulted in interdisciplinary research

Integrated in interdisciplinary research

Irrelevant in interdisciplinary research

Not allowed in interdisciplinary research

Answer

Correct Answer: Integrated in interdisciplinary research

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The grouping of things according to their common characteristics is called ______.

A department

A college

A discipline

A taxonomy

Answer

Correct Answer: A taxonomy

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A discipline’s favored phenomena, epistemology, assumptions, concepts, theories, methods, and data is called ______.

Its defining elements

Its approach

Its area of foci

Its bias

Answer

Correct Answer: Its defining elements

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The natural sciences, the social sciences, the humanities, the fine and performing arts, the applied fields, and the professions are ______.

Disciplinary categories

Disciplinary silos

Disciplinary departments

Subdisciplines

Answer

Correct Answer: Disciplinary categories

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Branches of specialties within disciplines are called ______.

Schema

Departments

Interdisciplines

Subdisciplines

Answer

Correct Answer: Subdisciplines

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Theory is a generalized scholarly explanation about some aspect of the natural or human world, how it works, and how specific facts are related, that is, _______ by data and research.

Supported

Not supported

Answer

Correct Answer: Supported

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Taxonomy is grouping things according to their

Origin

Differences

Geographical distribution

Common characteristics

Answer

Correct Answer: Common characteristics

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Subdisciplines are ___________ disciplines

Branches of

Specialities within

Any of the above

None of these

Answer

Correct Answer: Any of the above

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The community of scholars who engage in the work of the discipline are known as

Epistemological pluralism

Social content of disciplines

Peer review

Interdisciplinary perspective taking

Answer

Correct Answer: Social content of disciplines

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Scientific methods is a term often used to describe any careful _________ testing of a formal hypothesis.

Qualitative

Quantitative

Both

None

Answer

Correct Answer: Quantitative

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Peer review is A process in which researchers scrutinize and critique each other’s work in search of

Possible shortcomings

Alternative explanations

A & B

None

Answer

Correct Answer: A & B

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Objectivity is the attempt to remove personal experience and judgment from interfering with our interpretation of the world around us.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Methods are particular __________ used by a discipline’s practitioners to conduct, organize, and present research.

Procedures

Processes

Techniques

All of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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The intellectual capacity to view a complex problem, phenomenon, or behavior from __________ in order to develop a more comprehensive understanding of it.

Same perspective

Multiple perspectives

Single perspective

Any of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: Multiple perspectives

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Epistemology is the study of the nature and basis of knowledge.

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Empiricism holds that all knowledge is derived from our

Perceptions

Experience

Observation

Any of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: Any of the above

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Disciplinary subculture is a smaller scholarly community within a discipline that privileges

Selected research methodologies

Bodies of literature

Research questions

Any of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: Any of the above

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Disciplinary perspective is discipline's view of reality in a general sense

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: True

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Disciplinary categories include

Divisions

Colleges

Faculties

All of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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Defining elements of a discipline include all of the following except

Epistemology

Assumptions

Theories

None

Answer

Correct Answer: None

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Deductive approach formulates a hypothesis that is not testable

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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Abstract ideas generalized from particular instances or symbols expressed in language that represent phenomena are known as

Concepts

Assumptions

Metacognition

Any of the above

Answer

Correct Answer: Concepts

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Assumptions are things that are true

True

False

Answer

Correct Answer: False

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