Week
Five Assignment
Your Name Here _______________________
Part
One: Complete Exercise 5, Part I in the
Ayers Book
Part
Two: Answer the questions on this
form. For multiple choice,
just circle the answer
1. For a nomothetic
causal relationship to exist, there must be
evidence:
a. of an empirical correlation between
the variables
b. that one variable precedes the other
in time
c. that a third variable did not cause the changes observed in the first two
variables
d. of an empirical correlation between
the variables, one variable precedes the other in time, and a third
variable
did not cause the changed observed in the
first two
variables
e. of an empirical correlation between
the variables and that one variable precedes the other in time
2. A researcher examined
newspaper
editorials from papers published in major
a. issues that concern readers
b. the major cities
c. the newspapers
d. the newspaper editorials
3. Professor Root was
studying the
arrest rates for drunken driving in urban and rural areas of
a. ecological fallacy
b. individualistic fallacy
c. usefulness of good deductive
reasoning
d. importance of trend studies
e. reductionist
fallacy
4. A single U.S. Census
is a:
a. cross-sectional study
b. panel study
c. time series study
d. trend study
e. longitudinal study
5.
Reliability involves:
a. whether a particular technique
applied repeatedly to the same object would yield the same results each
time
b. ensuring accuracy
c. ensuring that your measure measures
what you think it should measure
d. ensuring precision
e. all of these choices
6.
A nominal definition:
a. is a statement of the essential
nature of some entity
b. is a statement detailing what will be
involved in measuring some entity
c. is a statement that allows us to
observe some entity
d. is a statement that assigns a
definition to a concept
e. none of these choices
7.
When the variable religious affiliation
is classified as Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish, this variable has
the
important quality of being:
a. mutually exclusive
b. exhaustive
c. interchangeable
d. nominal scale
e. ordinal scale
8.
Professor Miller argues that there are three dimensions to the quality
of a
relationship (belonging/affirmation, interdependence, and intimacy).
Miller
designed an instrument to measure quality of a relationship. She
notices that
no items in the instrument tap the intimacy dimension. Her measure
lacks:
a. reliability
b. content validity
c. predictive validity
d. construct
validity
e. internal consistency
9.
Precision and accuracy are synonyms.
a. True
b. False
10.
Concepts are derived by mutual agreement from mental images that
summarize collections
of seemingly related observations and experiences.
a. True
b. False
11.
Which of the following illustrates the use of the inductive method?
a. Hypothesis, observations, accept or reject hypothesis
b. Observations, pattern finding, and
generalizations
c. Theory, hypothesis, observations,
generalizations
d. Theory, observations, and
generalizations
e. Generalizations, theory, and
observations
12.
Male, female, 65 years of age, 22 years of age, and brown-eyed are
examples of:
a. variables
b. social regularities
c. aggregates
d. attributes
e. nomothetic
analyses
13. Social regularities
are
probabilistic patterns.
a. True
b. False
Five students
received the following scores on a test.
80, 64, 55, 92, 77
14. What is the
mean? ___________
15. What
is
the Standard Deviation? ___________
16. What
is
the median? _____________________
Consider the following findings:
85 men agreed with an item
75 women agreed
112 men disagreed
57 women disagreed
17. What
percent
of the men agreed? ___________
18. What
percent of the women disagreed?
_____________
19. What
percent of the respondents were men who agreed? ______________-
20. Prepare
a
finished contingency table with the results, putting the independent
variable
in the column and the dependent variable in the row.
Use the appropriate percents and show how
they add to 100. Write a brief paragraph
summarizing the result correctly mentioning at least two of the
percentages.
Next: staple
your results to Ayers, Exercise 5, Part I to this form.