Research (Practicle, Real-World) Quiz # 1

_________research aimed to address phenomena that a researcher sees as problematic or to solve practical problems in a way to improve the human experience.

Theoretical

Applied

Exploratory

Descriptive

_________research aimed to address phenomena that a researcher sees as problematic or to solve practical problems in a way to improve the human experience.

Theoretical

Applied

Exploratory

Descriptive

_________research aimed to address phenomena that a researcher sees as problematic or to solve practical problems in a way to improve the human experience.

Theoretical

Applied

Exploratory

Descriptive

_____ is a form of knowledge that stems from “experts.”

Authority

Basic research

Common sense

Deductive research

Research aimed at obtaining knowledge for the sake of knowledge is known as ________.

Authority

Basic research

Common sense

Deductive research

_______ is a form of knowledge that stems from a combination of experience and tradition.

Authority

Basic research

Common sense

Deductive research

An approach to research that starts with a review of existing research is known as __________.

Deductive research

Descriptive research

Evaluation research

Evidence-based research

________research whose main purpose is to describe or document a phenomenon.

Deductive research

Descriptive research

Evaluation research

Evidence-based research

_________ research that has an applied focus such as assessing whether a program or policy is operating as designed or if it is creating the desired effect.

Deductive research

Descriptive research

Evaluation research

Evidence-based research

________ is a form of applied research that started in the medical field but has expanded to the social and behavioral sciences that blends the knowledge and experiences of those in practice with the best available research in the field.

Deductive research

Descriptive research

Evaluation research

Evidence-based research

A source of knowledge that comes from our first-hand observation of facts or events is known as .?

Experience

Inexperience

Ignorance

Unawareness

__________research that tries to answer “why” a phenomenon occurs, often via testing of a theory.

Deductive

Explanatory

Evaluation

Evidence-based

________research involving topics for which little is known and therefore it focuses on a broad, comparatively unstructured examination of a phenomenon.

Exploratory

Explanatory

Evaluation

Evidence-based

________research involving topics for which little is known and therefore it focuses on a broad, comparatively unstructured examination of a phenomenon.

Exploratory

Explanatory

Evaluation

Evidence-based

An approach to research that starts with observation based on a looser design of observation is known as ________.

Inductive research

Qualitative research

Quantitative research

Evaluation research

Research in which the data are not in numbers but instead are in the contextual language of the subjects. Qualitative research frequently focuses on in-depth understanding of information for which little is known as_______

Inductive research

Qualitative research

Quantitative research

Evaluation research

_________ for which the data are expressed in numbers via statistical analysis.

Inductive research

Qualitative research

Quantitative research

Evaluation research

_______ is a source of knowledge that stems from “how things have always” been done.

Tradition

Aim

Alternative way

Abortion

_______ is a source of knowledge that stems from “how things have always” been done.

Tradition

Aim

Alternative way

Abortion

________ is a testable assertion of difference.

Alternate hypothesis

Associative hypothesis

Bibliographic database

None of these

A testable statement with an independent and dependent variable but which attempts to establish a causal connection is known as ?

Alternate hypothesis

Associative hypothesis

Bibliographic database

None of these

Bibliographic database is an online collection of references to published information such as_______.

Scholarly journals, conference proceedings

Newspapers, government publications

Books

All of these

_______ is a testable statement where the independent variable is believed to create (cause) the change in the dependent variable.

Causal hypothesis

Correlation

Correlative question

None of these

________is a statistical test establishing an association between variables.

Causal hypothesis

Correlation

Correlative question

None of these

_________is a type of research question that looks at an association between variables but does not purport to make any causal claims.

Causal hypothesis

Correlation

Correlative question

None of these

__________ research questions that intend to document an experience or phenomena.

Descriptive research

Explanatory Research

Qualitative Research

Quantitative Research

________ this means that a phenomenon can be directly observed and documented.

Empirically observable

Controlled Observations

Naturalistic Observations

Participant Observations

_______ is being able to show that a change in one variable is associated with a change in another variable.

Empirical association

Impact factor

Impact question

Literature review

_____ is a measure of the frequency that the average journal article is cited in a particular year. This serves as an indicator of journal quality.

Empirical association

Impact factor

Impact question

Literature review

________ is a research question that tries to establish a causal connection between variables.

Empirical association

Impact factor

Impact question

Literature review