What unit of analysis would a researcher use to

12.
What unit of analysis would a researcher use to conduct a study of women’s attitudes toward
abortion?
a. the individual
b. attitudes
c. each abortion
d. the women’s attitudes
Ans. A, ref. p. 95-101
13.
Jasmine is confused by a report that claims that women are more likely to vote for Liberals than
men. She is confused because her best friend, Selena, always votes Conservative. Which false
criteria for nomothetic causality is Jasmine guilty of using?
14.
What type of design is a single Canadian census?

15.
Which of the following designs uncovers only net changes?
16.
Researcher John collects data from town hall records on the number of students in local schools
and the average test performance of students in these schools. He wants to determine if there is a
relationship between school size and average test performance at the school. What is John's unit
of observation?
a.
groups
b. social artifacts
c.
organizations
d. Individuals
Ans. B, ref. p. 95-101
17.
Rosemary is conducting a study in which she intends to follow a random selection of teens over
a five-year period. Each year she will randomly sample 300 individuals from a total of 25 high
schools. What form of research is she performing?
18.
What kind of relationship is the positive relationship between shoe size and IQ?
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19.
Dr. Rafael has decided to further refine his research findings. He has chosen the smaller group
that has been selected from a larger one for closer study. Which term describes the smaller
research group?
20.
In which step of a research study are data actually collected?
a. observation
b. sampling
c.
processing
d. Analysis
Ans. A, ref. p. 115
TRUE/FALSE
1.
If two variables are correlated with each other, there must be a causal relationship between them.
2.
Social scientists perhaps most typically choose individuals as their units of analysis.
3. 4. 5.
Answers to researchers' questions about experiences or events that happened a long time ago
yield information that is sometimes called "retrospective data."
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