Interdisciplinary Studies MCQ Questions Answers

1. Procrastinators will usually ________.

2. The Broad Model is a four-step research method.

3. 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

4. Informed borrowing is selecting one path to understanding while ________ others.

5. One of the key insights of interdisciplinary scholarship is that interdisciplinarians need not have the same depth of knowledge in disciplines as disciplinary specialists have in order to draw on these.

6. Reflection should be avoided when possible in interdisciplinary research.

7. In critically analyzing insights, we are only interested in identifying the key elements of each insight so that we can locate points of similarity between them.

8. Interdisciplinary reflection begins by considering what bias you may have consciously or unconsciously brought to the subject.

9. To “critically analyze” requires being critical of expert evidence and to look for points of conflict and their sources.

10. ______ refers to “the degree to which an insight reflects the biases inherent in the discipline’s perspective and thus the way an author understands the problem resulting from the author’s deliberate decision or unconscious predisposition to omit certain information that pertains to the problem.”

11. “Reflect on How an Interdisciplinary Approach has Enlarged Your Understanding of the Problem” ______.

12. If you can understand the perspective of each relevant discipline, read the insights, identify the theory on which the insight is based, and identify the appropriateness of the method the author uses, you are demonstrating ______.

13. In critically analyzing insights, we are interested in ______.

14. Critically Analyze the Disciplinary Insights Into the Problem” ______.

15. If the discipline’s experts have produced one or more insights into the problem, then the discipline is relevant.

16. When conducting a literature review, you define the scope or boundaries of the study and characterize the study as interdisciplinary.

17. Step 4 of the Broad Model calls for gathering information about the problem.

18. In an examination of domestic violence, you find only one article on the problem from a psychological perspective, but many from sociology. You should assume from this discovery that sociology is more relevant than psychology in this investigation.

19. Nodes are the important concepts or the phenomena under study.

20. You identify Environmental Studies as a relevant discipline in your examination of the complex problem of climate change. Since this is an interdisciplinary field, you should ______.

21. Skimming the disciplinary literature may guide you to narrow the focus of your research question. This is an action that should be performed as part of ______.

22. A sentence in your interdisciplinary research that includes a phrase such as “I am seeking to answer this question in order to . . . ” suggests that you are ______.

23. When conducting a literature review, you ______.

24. What are the first four steps in the Broad Model?

25. In general, the approach of interdisciplinary research is to study a particular phenomenon or process using one or two of the dozen or so specialized methods employed across the scholarly enterprise.

26. Complexity is a key criterion that justifies discipline-specific research.

27. A good research question conveys the focus of the study in an easy-to-understand sentence or two.

28. The Broad Model is the preferred research method of interdisciplinarians.

29. Disciplinary bias, disciplinary jargon, and personal bias are ______.

30. Domestic violence is a problem that would be suitable for interdisciplinary investigation because ______.

31. A sentence in your interdisciplinary research that includes a phrase such as “I am seeking to answer this question in order to . . . ” suggests that you are ______.

32. The first step in the Broad Model is to ______.

33. The Broad Model has ______ steps.

34. Theory extension involves placing seeming opposites along a continuum.

35. Redefinition involves mapping the different arguments made by different authors.

36. Contextualization is an approach used by humanists and those in the fine and performing arts to embed the object of study in the fabric of time, culture, and personal experience.

37. Interdisciplinarians have developed four approaches to integration.

38. The Broad Model subsumes the approaches of conceptualization and contextualization but not problem-centering.

39. Interdisciplinary integration is ______.

40. When a new product is sought, a new policy intervention, a new medical treatment, or a new response to an environmental concern, a good approach would be ______.

41. A limitation of the conceptualization approach is that it ______.

42. Contextualization involves ______.

43. What are the four commonly used approaches to achieve integration?

44. An interdisciplinary approach to critical thinking about disciplinary work is extremely complex.

45. Perhaps the most common reason for lack of clarity is the author’s use of technical jargon.

46. Two guidelines for critically analyzing a disciplinary work are its depth and breadth.

47. Data and methods are deemed valid if it is likely that similar results would be found if the study were replicated or performed again under similar conditions.

48. Critical thinking is analysis and evaluation.

49. Awareness of the limitations of expertise means that

50. A disciplinary insight is

51. If after mapping the phenomenon associated with a complex problem to reveal its disciplinary parts you see that two of the disciplines disagree on an aspect of your complex problem, you should

52. One advantage that an interdisciplinary reader has over a disciplinary colleague is that

53. What is interdisciplinary critical thinking?

54. Dualists believe that knowledge is relative.

55. The dualist and relativist positions are simplistic epistemic positions because they rest on the assumption you already “know what is true” about a given subject.

56. Multiplicity refers to when you experience several plausible yet contradictory explanations of the same phenomenon as opposed to one simple, clear-cut, unambiguous explanation.

57. Political science is relevant to the issues of human cloning because it examines the role of the federal government and particular agencies.

58. Literature searches are not important in interdisciplinary work as they are discipline-specific.

59. Because different disciplines will have relevant perspectives on complex problems and these perspectives will reflect the discipline’s perspective, ______.

60. Dualists believe that knowledge ______.

61. If you wanted to study the homeless population in a particular community, you should ______.

62. When choosing disciplines to carry out interdisciplinary research on a particular problem, you should consider ______.

63. To interrogate in an interdisciplinary sense means to ______.

64. As applied to interdisciplinary studies, complexity involves analyzing the problem from the perspective of each interested discipline and identifying the differences and similarities between them.

65. Integrationist interdisciplinarians regard integration as the key distinguishing characteristic of interdisciplinarity and the goal of fully interdisciplinary work.

66. The disciplines are adequate to address complexity comprehensively.

67. The “DNA” of interdisciplinary studies refers to its many forms.

68. The core of the integrationist position is that integration is generally achievable.

69. Interdisciplinarity views homelessness as ______.

70. ______ interdisciplinarians regard integration as the key distinguishing characteristic of interdisciplinarity and the goal of fully interdisciplinary work.

71. ______ interdisciplinarians reject the notion that integration should be the defining feature of genuine interdisciplinarity.

72. Which theory is defined in social terms as the knowledge, beliefs, and suppositions that each person must establish with another person in order to interact with that person?

73. Which interdisciplinary theory states that interdisciplinary study is necessitated when the phenomenon is multifaceted and functions as a “system”?

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

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

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

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

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

79. Disciplinary perspectives are ______.

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

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

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

83. Branches of specialties within disciplines are called ______.

84. The story of your academic or intellectual journey told from your point of view is called an intellectual autobiography.

85. Favoring one discipline’s understanding of the problem at the expense of competing understandings of the same problem offered by other disciplines is called personal bias.

86. Intellectual dexterity is the ability to speak to a broad spectrum of knowledge and experience.

87. Service learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities.

88. In the context of interdisciplinary studies, tolerance of ambiguity is a positive attitude that recognizes the limits of one’s training and expertise and seeks to overcome these limits by drawing on expertise from multiple disciplines.

89. The painting “Two Men and a Donkey” illustrates the importance of which key interdisciplinary concept?

90. A collection of your work, which is gathered in a form that can be shared with an audience is called ______.

91. The awareness of your own learning and thinking processes, often described as “thinking about your thinking,” is called ______.

92. Allowing your own point of view (e.g., your politics, faith tradition, cultural identity) to influence how you understand or approach the problem is called ______.

93. The capacity to analyze, critique, and assess is called ______.

94. Critical interdisciplinarity questions disciplinary assumptions and ideological underpinnings.

95. The interdisciplinarian is trained to recognize disciplinary perspectives and can readily detect how disciplinary assumptions can skew understanding.

96. Multidisciplinarity is the placing side by side of insights from two or more disciplines without attempting to integrate them.

97. In the early 1900s, interdisciplinarity began to acquire academic legitimacy.

98. Scholarly contributions to the clear understanding of a complex problem, object, or text are called theories.

99. When a problem is simple or multifaceted but not complex, this approach should suffice ______.

100. The underlying premise of instrumental interdisciplinary studies is that ______.