Business Research Quiz # 10

Longitudinal cohort is a study in which a population or subpopulation includes generals who have a characteristic or have experienced a different event during a fixed period (typically birth).

True

False

Samples and tracks the different respondents (usually generals or households) by collecting is not repeated measures on the different set of variables at two or more points in time.

True

False

Collects data from respondents (or multiple groups) at several points in time, starting in the present and going into the future is known as Longitudinal (prospective) study

True

False

Longitudinal trends are samples from the same groups of people (but independent samples from the same general population) at various points in time but typically ask the different questions..

True

False

Non Experimental design is a systematic empirical inquiry in which the scientist have direct control of independent variables

True

False

Predictive nonexperimental design is research that is conducted so that it can be used to predict or forecast some event or phenomenon in the past.

True

False

A logical plan to select and arrange the evidence that have not answers the research question is known as Research design

True

False

______ is a study that compares specific characteristics of participants or an outcome of interest with participants who do not have that outcome (controls)

Retrospective case-control

Retrospective cohort

Retrospective study

Time dimensions

A researcher goes back in time with generals who are alike on some dimensions but one group differs on a characteristic of interest .

Retrospective case-control

Retrospective cohort

Retrospective study

Time dimensions

____ is a historically oriented study that looks back to more than one period—ideally, to make comparisons or establish a trend.

Retrospective case-control

Retrospective cohort

Retrospective study

Time dimensions

Comprises cross-sectional,_______, and retrospective studies is known as time dimensions

Longitudinal

Crosswise

At right angles

None of these

A form of classification that conceptually separates a set of items on single characteristics and distills them into fewer generalizable dimensions is known as typology

True

False

A relevant actor that operates as a liaison with other units in an organization is known as _____.

Boundary spanner

Bounded system

Bracketing

Case study

_______ is a system (composed of persons, groups, dynamic situations, or processes) bounded in time and place.

Boundary spanner

Bounded system

Bracketing

Case study

Bracketing is the process in which a qualitative researcher identifies “what she or he expects to discover and then _______puts aside these ideas”

Deliberately

Cold-heartedness

Detachment

Coldheartedness

A research procedure that uses an in-depth and detailed investigation of a case (a person, group, or situation over a period of time) and the related contextual conditions; in business it entails a study within a real-life, ________context or setting is known as case study

Contemporary

Ancient

Archaic

None of these

A comparison of outcoming data with those already collected so that the researcher wait until the end of the study to accumulate all of the data is known as Constant comparison

True

False

Content analysis is applied to the “subjective interpretation of the content of text data through the ______classification process of coding and identifying themes or patterns” .

Systematic

Unsystematic

Haphazard

All over the place

_____ is the process of integrating or nesting strands of data in a mixed methods design in which a small amount of either quantitative or qualitative data are included within a larger qualitative or quantitative study.

Embedding

Ethnography

Grounded theory

Key informant

________ is “the study of a culture or cultures that some group of people shares, using participant observation over an extended period of time”

Embedding

Ethnography

Grounded theory

Key informant

Grounded theory is an approach to analyzing qualitative data in which repeated ideas are identified, summarized, and grouped into conceptual categories or broader themes, and a theory is built systematically from the ground up with “______” inductive observations.

Grounded

Embedding

Key informant

None of these

People most knowledgeable about the culture used by ethnographers in interviews is known as Key informant is known as ____.

Grounded

Embedding

Key informant

None of these

Lived experience is the kind of human experiences studied in _______.

Phenomenology

Certainty

Both a and b

None of these

Integrated only quantitative designs are known as mixed design .

False

True

_____ is a form of qualitative design in which the researcher focuses on how respondents impose order on the flow of experience in their lives and thus make sense of the events and actions they have experienced.

Narrative

Fiction

Incommunicative

Uncommunicative

A field setting is known as _____.

Netnography

Naturalistic setting

Observation

Paradigm weighting

_______ are Uses “ethnographic methods to study online communities developed by people with similar interests or backgrounds”

Netnography

Observation

Descriptive anthropology

None of these

“the selection, provocation, recording, and encoding of that set of behaviors and settings concerning organisms (in situ) which is consistent with empirical aims” is known as _________

Netnography

Observation

Descriptive anthropology

None of these

A mixed methods design process in which the researcher prioritizes (equalizes, weights, or ascribes dominance) to either qualitative is known as ?

Participant observer

Paradigm weighting

Participant reactivity

None of these

_____ is a technique of research in which a researcher gains access to a setting and observes it..

Participant observer

Paradigm weighting

Participant reactivity

None of these