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Interviews, Focus Groups, and Ethnography MCQ

Interviews, Focus Groups, and Ethnography MCQ

1. Performance studies are multidisciplinary and include theatre, sociology, gender studies, critical race studies, and other disciplines.

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Correct Answer: True

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2. “Inverted funnel” question order means that questions in an interview move from broad and general to narrow and specific.

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Correct Answer: False

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3. The direction and content of semi-structured interviews are determined by the interviewer and by the interviewee.

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Correct Answer: True

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4. The results of research with participants in real life settings typically have a higher validity than the results of research in experimental settings.

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Correct Answer: True

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5. Liminal performances are those that take place ______.

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Correct Answer: In the in-between space as we’re moving from one place to another in our lives

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6. The direction and content of fully structured interviews are largely determined by the interviewer.

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Correct Answer: True

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7. “Watching and listening” research demands that a specific hypothesis be written before beginning the research.

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Correct Answer: False

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8. Successful focus groups have ______.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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9. Rating or ranking questions ask respondents to explain which items are most similar and which most different.

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Correct Answer: True

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10. When a researcher takes on a complete observer role, people being researched will be fully aware that they are being observed.

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Correct Answer: False

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11. Focus groups are based on the assumption that the ideas that emerge from several people together provide greater insight than the ideas generated by the same people interviewed separately.

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Correct Answer: True

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12. Descriptive questions ask informants to explain their emotional responses to phenomena.

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Correct Answer: False

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13. In Dell Hymes’ S.P.E.A.K.I.N.G model, instrumentality means the ______.

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Correct Answer: Channels or methods used to communicate

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14. Short term for Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software is

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Correct Answer: CAQDAS

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15. A research approach that argues that theories should emerge from data analysis, not prior to data analysis is known as

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Correct Answer: Grounded Theory

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16. Coding that allows new categories of data to emerge rather than using only preconceived categories is called

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Correct Answer: Flexible Coding

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17. Assigning units of information to preassigned categories is known as

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Correct Answer: Fixed Coding

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18. The process of identifying an item of data as belonging to a category predetermined by the researcher is known as

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Correct Answer: Categorization

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19. Heurism is Knowledge gained from _____

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Correct Answer: Both of these

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20. Study of performance in situational or ritual contexts is called

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Correct Answer: Performance Studies

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21. Studies based on the observation of behaviors, not necessarily as in-depth as ethnographies is known as

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Correct Answer: Observational Studies

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22. A specialized form of ethnography adapted to computer-mediated social worlds is called

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Correct Answer: Netnography

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23. Emoticons are _____ representations of emotional states or moods

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Correct Answer: Typographic

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24. ______ is known as the traditional types of speech found in most cultures—for example, commencement addresses.

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Correct Answer: Genres

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25. In Hymes’s ethnography of communication, the rules governing speech and its interpretation are known as

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Correct Answer: Norms

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26. The channels or methods used to communicate are called Instrumentality

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Correct Answer: True

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27. The tone of speech or how the speech sounds is known as

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Correct Answer: Key

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28. In Burke’s dramatistic analysis, the behavior that is taking place is known as

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Correct Answer: Acts

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29. In Hymes’s ethnography of communication, the goals of the communication being studied is called

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Correct Answer: Ends

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30. Individuals who have volunteered to be in a research project are called

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Correct Answer: Participants

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31. Situation is the setting where the activities take place and the overall scene of which they are a part.

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Correct Answer: True

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32. Ways of Speaking is the styles of speech that are characteristic of a ____

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Correct Answer: Culture

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33. ________ is the Example of Communicative Styles

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Correct Answer: Both of These

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34. The smaller units of speech within a speech event is known as

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Correct Answer: Communicative Act

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35. A specific speech activity—for example, an awards speech is called

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Correct Answer: Speech Event

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36. In Hymes’s ethnography of communication, the overall scene of which activities are a part is known as

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Correct Answer: Speech Situation

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37. A group of people who share a common language that differentiates them from other groups is called

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Correct Answer: Speech Community

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38. Analytic Notes are also known as

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Correct Answer: Descriptive notes

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39. Records of the specific methods researchers use to gather data is called as

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Correct Answer: Method Notes

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40. Descriptive Notes are also known as

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Correct Answer: Analytic Notes

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41. The individuals who are part of a community being studied are known as

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Correct Answer: Key Informants

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42. Those who control access to research participants or the publication of research results are called

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Correct Answer: Gatekeepers

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43. Ethnography is The study of

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Correct Answer: Human social behavior

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44. Graphical representations of one or more computer users , such as icons are known as

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Correct Answer: Avatars

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45. ____ communication is known as Synchronous communication

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Correct Answer: Coordinated

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46. ____ communication is known as Asynchronous communication

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Correct Answer: Uncoordinated

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47. The leader of a focus group who is responsible for running the group’s discussion and ensuring that it keeps “on topic is known as

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Correct Answer: Facilitator

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48. The leader of a focus group. A moderator is responsible for running the group’s discussion and ensuring that it keeps “on topic is known as

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Correct Answer: Moderator

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49. In the Focus Group _____ group of people brought together to discuss a topic of interest to the researcher.

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Correct Answer: Small

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50. Interviewees are Individuals who are interviewed

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Correct Answer: True

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51. Prompts are the Questions that spark a response or further information from an ______

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Correct Answer: Interviewee

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52. Questions that ask respondents to explain the difference between two or more things or concepts are known as

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Correct Answer: Contrast Questions

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53. Questions that ask interviewees to explain the relationships among different terms are called

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Correct Answer: Structural Questions

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54. Questions that ask informants to describe a phenomenon are known as

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Correct Answer: Descriptive Questions

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55. The order in which questions are asked is called

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Correct Answer: Sequence

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56. Interviews in which the researcher has determined what questions are important, the order in which they will be asked are called

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Correct Answer: Fully Structured Interviews

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57. A set of interview questions that are largely predetermined but allow room for interviewees to add their own insights and views are known as

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Correct Answer: Semi Structured Interviews

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58. Interviews with broad questions and a loose schedule of questions so that interviewees have the freedom to explain their responses are called

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Correct Answer: Unstructured Interviews

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59. The extent to which an interview has a format are called

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Correct Answer: Structure

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60. Interviewees considered capable of speaking on behalf of _____ are called Respondents

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Correct Answer: Themselves

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61. Informants are Interviewees considered capable of speaking on behalf of ___.

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Correct Answer: Others

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62. The process of asking questions of a respondent to elicit informa­tion the researcher is interested in is known as

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Correct Answer: Interview

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63. Interpretive studies can be understood as attempts to place oneself “in the other person’s shoes.”

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Correct Answer: True

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64. A research approach based on measurement, counting, and, typically, statistical analysis is called

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Correct Answer: Quantitative

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