Latest Social Science Reviewer 7: 30 Questions with Answers

1. How does a hypothesis support inquiry?

a. They refer to evidence already proven.

b. They restate the thesis question.

c. They are tentative answers to what is true of false.

d. They provide body of literature.

Ans. : C

2. In order to protect participants on serious issues like use of drugs, researcher can adopt__________ of respondents.

a. custody

b. anonymity

c. open testimony

d. subpoena

Ans. : B

3. For privileged communication, the researcher keeps _________ of respondents under secrecy or anonymity.

a. data

b. answers

c. names

d. evidences

Ans. : C

4. Which was committed by a researcher who repackaged information for vested interest, e.g. mocked-up Tasaday cave dwellers?

a. Deception

b. Misuse of information

c. Break trust in confidentially

d. Violate anonymity

Ans. : A

5. When social researchers "speak out" the truth on social issues, they perform the role of scientific _________ .

a. journalism

b. experts

c. writers

d. commentators

Ans. : B

6. Which term is used for researchers predisposed to arriving at the same conclusion for a series of researches on the same topic?

a. Labeling

b. Time dimension

c. Reductionism

d. Echoing

Ans. : C

7. Which did researcher Ana conduct on kinds of worship among similar Christian groups?

a. Trend

b. Cross-sectional

c. Cohort

d. Longitudinal

Ans. : C

8. Which type of study and researcher Pete conduct on the popular use among millennial youths of Facebook accounts?

a. cohort

b. trend

c. longitudinal

d. cross-sectional

Ans. : B

9. Inquiry on public sentiment for grays-lesbians from 1960's to 2000's is ___________ study.

a. trend

b. cross-sectional

c. longitudinal

d. cohort

Ans. : C

10. Inquiry on legalization of marijuana getting data from the doctors, parents, teachers, churches, etc. is __________ research.

a. nomothetic

b. ideographic

c. non-spurious

d. complete  causation

Ans. : B

11. What is the unit studies about churches, colleges, agencies, army r navy?

a. Social interactions

b. Individuals

c. Social artifacts

d. Organizations

Ans. : D

12. A researcher committed _________ fallacy by concluding that young voters due to their age voted for young candidates.

a. ecological

b. branding

c. time dimension

d. reductionist

Ans. : A

13. Participants in a research should not be forced to reveal sensitive personal information, e.g. sexual behavior because they have the right to _________.

a. protection from harm

b. informed consent

c. coercion

d. privacy

Ans. : D

14. Participants may be willing to be interviewed but there should the right of ________ need to be ensured by telling them the nature of a specific research.

a. non-coercion

b. informed consent

c. privacy

d. protection from harm

Ans. : B

15. Participants not willing to be interviewed for a research should not be subjected to __________ such that they become reluctant respondents.

a. coercion

b. harm

c. ignorance

d. public disclosure

Ans. : A

16. As a researcher, you employ the inductive approach? Which do you do?

a. Generate new theory emerging from the data and then test the validity the theory

b. Test the validity of the theory

c. Generate new theory emerging from the data

d. The validity of the theory then come up with conclusion

Ans. : C

17. What is expected of the researcher in the Methods/Procedure part of the research?

I. Describes what s/he did, how s/he did it

II. Gives strategies, sample calculations

III. Describes tools and instruments

a. I, II and III

b. I and III

c. II and III

d. I and II

Ans. : A

18. Why does a researcher do a literature review?

I. To survey the current state of knowledge in the area of inquiry

II. To identify key authors, articles, theories, and findings in the area of research

III. To identify gaps in knowledge in that research area

a. I and II

b. II and III

c. I, II and III

d. I, II and III

Ans. : C

19. You should like to research an academic problems met by Indigenous Peoples' children in your school, which sampling will you use?

a. No sampling

b. Stratified sampling

c. Purposive sampling

d. Random sampling of all school children

Ans. : C

20. Which statement/s on ethnography is/are TRUE?

I. Ethnography is a highly approach to the study of cultural systems.

II. Ethnography is the study of the socio-cultural contexts, processes, and meanings within cultural systems.

III. Ethnography is an open-ended emergent learning process, and not a rigid investigator controlled experiment.

a. I and III

b. I, II and III

c. I and II

d. II and III

Ans. : B

21. Which statement/s on ethnography is/are TRUE?

I. Ethnography is a high flexible and creative process.

II. Ethnography is an interpretive, reflexive, and constructivist process.

III. Ethnography requires the daily

a. II and III

b. I and III

c. I and II

d. I, II and III

Ans. : D

22. Which kind of data includes descriptive field notes, narration of informants, myths, stories, song and sagas as gathered by anthropologists?

I. Qualitative data

II. Quantitative data

III. Inferential data

a. II only

b. III only

c. I only

d. I, II and III

Ans. : A

23. In my research, I use basic classical ethnographic field methods. Which ones do I use?

I. observations

II. asking questions

III. interpretation

IV. participant observation

a. I,II and III

b. II, III and IV

c. I, II, III and IV

d. I, III and IV

Ans. : C

24. If a design for evaluating a Community Support Program is being evaluated for its, relevance, what is the most significant question to consider?

a. Does the range of information to be provided include all the important aspects of the program?

b. Does the information to be provided adequately serve the evaluation needs of the intended audiences?

c. Is the information to be provided timely enough to e of use to the audiences?

d. Does the intended evaluation strictly follow ethical principles?

Ans. : B

25. How does  one avoid bias when administering a teacher questionnaire to determine the pulse on a new performance evaluation system?

a. Give priority to those who volunteer to fill out the questionnaire.

b. Make sure the sample of what you'll measure is most likely to present varied opinions.

c. Select sample from those getting high performance ratings.

d. Exclude as respondents teachers who are 60 or over.

Ans. : B

26. To insure reliability of an evaluation instrument , it is important to make sure that ___________ .

I. it is designed to get the information needed

II. there is only one way to interpret each item

III. stems with dual elements are eliminated

a. II and III

b. I and II

c. I only

d. I , II and III

Ans. : A

27. If you conduct a phenomenological research, what key ingredients do you expect?

I. A research question driven by curiosity informs the design of a study.

II. Participants need to be interested in and committed to exploring their lived experience to generate good quality data.

III. An effective analytical framework which can increase the quality of the findings.

a. I and II

b. II and III

c. I and II

d. I, II and III

Ans. : D

28. An experimental research might compare accident rates in those who text and drive versus those who do not text and drive. Which would be the independent variable?

a. The outcome ( accident or no accident)

b. The behavior of texting  and driving

c. Gender of drivers who text and drive

Ans. : B

29. Research Z conducted a correlational research on texting while driving and rate of accidents. Which is a possible finding?

a. Younger drivers have an increased rate of accidents while texting and driving.

b. Older drivers have less cell phones

c. Younger drivers are more techno savvy.

d. Accidents are caused by texting.

Ans. : A

30. I like to find out if integrity of public officials has been improving. Which study will I conduct?

a. Cohort Study

b. Cross-sectional study

c. Trend study

d. Longitudinal study

Ans. :C

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