RESEARCH ACTUAL MIDTERM EXAM ALL 100 REAL
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Question 1: What is the primary difference between marketing research and other
types of research? - ANSWER: Marketing research focuses on marketing problems
using a marketing paradigm and is very targeted.
Question 2: Which of the following is NOT one of the roles of marketing research? -
ANSWER: Makes final business decisions for the organization.
Question 3: In the marketing research process which phase involves defining the
research questions and specifying research objectives? - ANSWER: Determine the
Research Problem.
Question 4: Which of the following best describes secondary data? - ANSWER:
Information previously collected for some other problem or issue.
Question 5: Which of the following is an example of an internal source of secondary
data? - ANSWER: Sales invoices from the company's records.
Question 6: When might marketing research NOT be needed? - ANSWER: When the
costs of conducting research outweigh the potential benefits.
Question 7: What is the first step in the 11-step research process? - ANSWER:
Identify and clarify information needs.
Question 8: In the context of the scientific method what is a hypothesis? - ANSWER:
An unproven statement about a fact or phenomenon that is testable and potentially
falsifiable.
Question 9: Which of the following best defines a null hypothesis? - ANSWER: A
statistical hypothesis tested for possible rejection under the assumption that it is
true.
Question 10: In research terminology what is the difference between a concept and
a construct? - ANSWER: A concept is a broad idea or phenomenon; a construct is a
specific measurable representation of a concept.
Question 11: Which of the following is an example of a dependent variable in a
study? - ANSWER: The sales performance resulting from a marketing campaign.
, Question 12: In the research process what is the main purpose of conducting a
literature review? - ANSWER: To clarify the research problem and questions and to
understand existing studies.
Question 13: Which type of research design is used when the problem is not clearly
defined and the researcher seeks to generate insights? - ANSWER: Exploratory
research.
Question 14: What is the primary characteristic of qualitative research methods? -
ANSWER: Collection of data in the form of text or images through open-ended
questions and observations.
Question 15: Which of the following is a disadvantage of qualitative research
methods? - ANSWER: Subjectivity is involved and findings may lack generalizability.
Question 16: In sampling theory what does the Central Limit Theorem (CLT) state? -
ANSWER: The distribution of sample means approximates a normal distribution as
sample size increases.
Question 17: Which of the following is NOT a probability sampling method? -
ANSWER: Snowball sampling.
Question 18: Which sampling method involves dividing the population into
subgroups and selecting samples from each subgroup? - ANSWER: Stratified random
sampling.
Question 19: What is a key disadvantage of convenience sampling? - ANSWER: It
lacks generalizability due to potential sampling bias.
Question 20: Which level of measurement allows for the ranking of data but does
not indicate the exact differences between ranks? - ANSWER: Ordinal scale.
Question 21: In measurement theory transforming an abstract concept into
measurable terms is known as: - ANSWER: Operationalization.
Question 22: Which of the following is a characteristic of a reflective latent variable?
- ANSWER: Indicators are highly correlated and reflect variations in an unobservable
latent variable.
Question 23: What type of scale uses bipolar adjectives to capture a person's
attitudes or feelings about a given object? - ANSWER: Semantic differential scale.
Question 24: Which type of validity refers to how well a measurement instrument
appears to measure what it is supposed to measure based on the researcher's
intuitive evaluation? - ANSWER: Face validity.