Business Research MCQ Questions Answers

1. The structure of the poem "tattoo" by gregg shapiro can be described best as __________.

2. All of the following are important to people's job satisfaction except _____.

3. A television rating is _____.

4. A survey is considered to be ___________ if it measures what it is supposed to measure.

5. It is important to __________ every fact, idea, and argument that you find during research.

6. Information collected from online databases on the internet is an example of ________ data.

7. Competitive marketing intelligence uses _________ data sources.

8. Causal research is most useful in _____.

9. Defining the research problem is the step of the market research process that involves __________.

10. An example of secondary research is __________.

11. A(n) __________ is a small group of people brought together for an intensive discussion of a topic.

12. Survey research is the approach best suited for gathering __________.

13. Research involves all of the following except __________.

14. Competitive marketing intelligence uses _________ data sources.

15. Competitive marketing intelligence is primarily responsible for _____________.

16. Collecting the data is the step of the market research process that involves __________.

17. An experimental study is one that _____.

18. A journal's impact factor ______.

19. What is a citation search?

20. Which of the following is NOT a component of research that needs to be in balance?

21. In the discussion section, the focus is ______.

22. The results section of your paper is important for a variety of reasons. Which of the following is one of these reasons?

23. What is the purpose of the results section?

24. What is statistical power?

25. What are the four main subsections of the method section?

26. The CARS model creates a rhetorical space and attracts readers. What does CARS stand for?

27. What is usually the final part of the introduction?

28. Why is the abstract important?

29. The reason for a shorter title is ______.

30. How does an abstract differ from executive summary?

31. When writing, ______ is more important than a particular style manual.

32. There are several techniques for balancing treatment and control groups while reducing the effect of and compensating for confounding variables. Which of them is one of these techniques?

33. Where does a quasi-experiment usually take place?

34. Which type of randomized-based design involves groups of equal size, which is considered optimal for the experiment, and then randomly chooses a group for participant assignment?

35. True experiments are the strongest design for determining cause-and-effect relationships because ______.

36. There are four general types of validity. Which one relates to containing procedural variables and represents the generalizability of the study and how well it generalizes to a particular population?

37. Each member of the group gets an equal opportunity of being chosen as part of the sampling process. This is a definition of ______.

38. ______ is a form of research design often considered the “gold standard” for evaluating other designs.

39. ______ is a process of verification that increases validity by incorporating several viewpoints and methods.

40. Which two designs does mixed design integrate?

41. In ______, the researcher tries to make sense of the respondent’s events and the actions that the respondent has experienced.

42. Which of the following illustrates the core principles of constant comparison and theoretical sampling?

43. What is the benefit of unobtrusive measures?

44. Which type of design focuses more on depth and a detailed understanding of the problem’s context?

45. Successful identification of nonexperimental quantitative design is simplified through the 3 × 3 matrix because it ______.

46. If your research is focused on finding out information to help forecast what is coming up in business, what type of research will you be conducting?

47. What kind of studies collect data at one point in time or during a single short interval to make comparisons across different types of participants or variables?

48. Typology is a ______.

49. What is true of nonexperimental designs?

50. ______ is defined as laboratory versus field, or contrived versus non-contrived.

51. What are the two functions of research design?

52. What does IMRAD stand for?

53. What is an executive summary?

54. ______ includes the mean, median, and mode.

55. Daniel Wright compared data analysis to fine wine. What did he mean by that?

56. What is a way to deal with missing data?

57. Which among these is the systematic process of gathering information on variables of interest related to the hypothesis?

58. When are feasibility studies used?

59. What is a potential way to recruit research participants?

60. ______ is a reorganized extension of a submission to your professor, covering similar components of the research process but taking it a step further.

61. What is true of exempt, expedited, and full IRB reviews?

62. Each participant in research must be competent to give permission and have information about what will happen in the research, so that they can volunteer to be part of the study. This is called ______.

63. There are several types of samples that can be used in a research study. If the researcher uses a sample because of the convenience of the interviews, such as interviewing people on the street, this is called a ______.

64. Interviews, shopping mall intercepts, and media-driven questionnaires are all forms of which mode of research?

65. ______ represents the different ways in which evidence or data are collected and analyzed to facilitate achieving that goal.

66. Research design can be classified as experimental, nonexperimental, or mixed. Experimental designs ______.

67. What subparts of the main purpose statement are an integral part of the main purpose of the research proposal?

68. Which of the following is the highest priority for research on any topic?

69. There is a difference between academic research questions and managerial research questions. Managerial research questions focus on ______.

70. Which phase in the research process includes preparing to solve ethical dilemmas and completing an extensive literature review?

71. Business researchers are typically interested in discovering the relationship between variables. Which variable does the researcher manipulate to explain variance or discrepancy?

72. ______ can be counted or scaled. They could be age, education, income, or family size in a study of the effects of high housing costs on portions of the population.

73. Which element in the Toulmin Model demonstrates the connection between data and claim, showing why the evidence supports the claim?

74. What is a form of reasoning wherein the conclusion must necessarily follow from the reasons given?

75. In antiquity, who proposed a system that was a precursor to the scientific method?

76. Regardless of your research design choice in business research, your first step will be ______.

77. Which worldview argues that reality exists independent of the mind and uses both qualitative and quantitative design strategies?

78. Business research allows entrepreneurs to base the viability of their business ideas on facts to determine whether there is a big enough market to support a prospective business and make it profitable. What criterion ensures that the structure of research is logically connected to the outcome of determining whether a market is profitable?

79. Immediate real-world problems call for what type of research that provides solutions?

80. What type of business research is conducted to help forecast a business's ability to acquire and allocate resources to explore future opportunities?

81. Causal experimental and nonexperimental studies go beyond a description of phenomena to explain how and why an event occurs. Which primary purpose of business research does this fall under?

82. According to the Bloomberg research ranking of the top MBA programs, which skill is important in hiring MBAs?

83. The Pew Research Center conducted its most recent study on the rising value of a college degree. On an average, how much more a year do college graduates working full time make than their peers with high school diplomas?

84. Is the first page of a manuscript and it is separate; summarizes the main idea of a study by identifying variables and theoretical issues is known as _______

85. The part of the report that discusses the study in relation to existing work Is known as ______

86. The conclusion of the discussion section of the report is known as Suggestions for future research subsection.

87. The probability (typically set at not less than 80%) of rejecting the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is, in fact, true is known as statistical power

88. In a report, it should follow the method and precede the description of the participants (sample elements) is known as _______.

89. Presents results of the report in a sequence that reflects the order of the research and investigative questions and, ideally, the order of the hypotheses is known as

90. _________ are Lists all sources used in the report; begins on a new page with the heading centered at the top of the page in upper and lower-case letters (not bold, underlined, or in quotes).

91. __________is the section of the report in which the reader learns how the data were collected and the study was carried out.

92. The five-point option for reorganizing the Introduction of a report is known as Problem and its setting module ?

93. Provides insights for the reader when the research is oriented toward the applied side of the continuum is called Practical implications subsection.

94. A section of the report used to describe the study’s ______characteristics is known as Participants subsection.

95. Is tied to the research problem and reports the process by which the research question was answered or hypotheses were tested is known as ?

96. Method of data collection are Implements the design using accepted techniques, _________

97. Synthesis Matrix is a useful tool for organizing literature findings; a table that can be drawn by hand with added only columns as the literature expands.

98. The fifth section of the Discussion portion of the report; states the limitations or weaknesses of the study and reveals how these flaws could affect the conclusions is known as Limitations subsection

99. Introduction that contains ______.

100. Describes the mechanisms used for data collection is known as ____