SOWK 435 midterm Exams 2026
update with full questions and correct
answers 100% success
adherence to authority - Correct Answer: Unquestioning acceptance of statements by authority figures
such as parents, teachers, and professionals
community based participatory research - Correct Answer: a partnership approach to research that
equitably involves, community members, organizational representatives, and researchers in all aspects
of the research process and in which all partners contribute expertise and share decision making and
ownership.
Constructivism - Correct Answer: A perspective that emphasizes how different stakeholders in social
settings construct their beliefs.
Critical Theory - Correct Answer: a contemporary form of conflict theory that criticizes many different
systems and ideologies of domination and oppression
descriptive research - Correct Answer: research conducted to clarify the characteristics of certain
phenomena to solve a particular problem
evaluation research - Correct Answer: research assessing the effect of policies and programs
explanatory research - Correct Answer: seeks to identify causes and effects of social phenomena and to
predict how one phenomenon will change or vary in response to variation in some other phenomenon
Exploratory Research - Correct Answer: Research conducted to gather more information about a
problem or to make a tentative hypothesis more specific
Feminist research - Correct Answer: research growing out of feminist theory, which seeks radical reform
of traditional research methods
, illogical reasoning - Correct Answer: when we prematurely jump to conclusions or argue on the basis of
invalid assumptions
Inaccurate Observation - Correct Answer: An observation based on faulty perceptions of empirical
reality
Interpretivism - Correct Answer: as opposed to the dominant positivist perspective on consumer
behavior, instead stresses the importance of symbolic, subjective experience and the idea that meaning
is in the mind of the person rather than existing "out there" in the objective world
Intersubjective agreement - Correct Answer: when members of a research community independently
arrive at similar conclusions about a given social phenomenon
mixed methods - Correct Answer: A research approach that combines quantitative and qualitative
elements; it involves the description of the measurable state of a phenomenon and the individual's
subjective response to it.
Overgeneralization - Correct Answer: the tendency to interpret a single negative event as a never-ending
pattern of defeat and failure
Positivism - Correct Answer: the belief that knowledge should be derived from scientific observation
Postpositivism - Correct Answer: The belief that there is an empirical reality but that our understanding
of it is limited by its complexity and by the biases and other limitations of researchers
Qualitative Methods - Correct Answer: methods that attempt to collect information about the social
world that cannot be readily converted to numeric form
quantitative Methods - Correct Answer: methods that seek to obtain information about the social world
that is already in or can be converted to numeric form
resistance to change - Correct Answer: an emotional/behavioral response to real or imagined threats to
an established work routine
update with full questions and correct
answers 100% success
adherence to authority - Correct Answer: Unquestioning acceptance of statements by authority figures
such as parents, teachers, and professionals
community based participatory research - Correct Answer: a partnership approach to research that
equitably involves, community members, organizational representatives, and researchers in all aspects
of the research process and in which all partners contribute expertise and share decision making and
ownership.
Constructivism - Correct Answer: A perspective that emphasizes how different stakeholders in social
settings construct their beliefs.
Critical Theory - Correct Answer: a contemporary form of conflict theory that criticizes many different
systems and ideologies of domination and oppression
descriptive research - Correct Answer: research conducted to clarify the characteristics of certain
phenomena to solve a particular problem
evaluation research - Correct Answer: research assessing the effect of policies and programs
explanatory research - Correct Answer: seeks to identify causes and effects of social phenomena and to
predict how one phenomenon will change or vary in response to variation in some other phenomenon
Exploratory Research - Correct Answer: Research conducted to gather more information about a
problem or to make a tentative hypothesis more specific
Feminist research - Correct Answer: research growing out of feminist theory, which seeks radical reform
of traditional research methods
, illogical reasoning - Correct Answer: when we prematurely jump to conclusions or argue on the basis of
invalid assumptions
Inaccurate Observation - Correct Answer: An observation based on faulty perceptions of empirical
reality
Interpretivism - Correct Answer: as opposed to the dominant positivist perspective on consumer
behavior, instead stresses the importance of symbolic, subjective experience and the idea that meaning
is in the mind of the person rather than existing "out there" in the objective world
Intersubjective agreement - Correct Answer: when members of a research community independently
arrive at similar conclusions about a given social phenomenon
mixed methods - Correct Answer: A research approach that combines quantitative and qualitative
elements; it involves the description of the measurable state of a phenomenon and the individual's
subjective response to it.
Overgeneralization - Correct Answer: the tendency to interpret a single negative event as a never-ending
pattern of defeat and failure
Positivism - Correct Answer: the belief that knowledge should be derived from scientific observation
Postpositivism - Correct Answer: The belief that there is an empirical reality but that our understanding
of it is limited by its complexity and by the biases and other limitations of researchers
Qualitative Methods - Correct Answer: methods that attempt to collect information about the social
world that cannot be readily converted to numeric form
quantitative Methods - Correct Answer: methods that seek to obtain information about the social world
that is already in or can be converted to numeric form
resistance to change - Correct Answer: an emotional/behavioral response to real or imagined threats to
an established work routine
