Sociology LSU 2001, (Chauvin) Exam with
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The idea that a change in one factor results in a corresponding change in another
factor - ✅✅ Causality
What three factors are needed to prove causation? - ✅✅ Correlation, time order,
and alternative explanations
This exists when there is simultaneous variation in variables, such as when
education goes up, income also goes up - ✅✅ Correlation
Logical explanations / ways of explaining things - ✅✅ Alternative explanations
Explanations that are false such as saying "when ice cream sales go up, murders
also go up, so murderers must love ice cream" - ✅✅ Spurious explanation
This occurs when a researcher believes that A is causing B, when in reality, B is
causing A. - ✅✅ Reverse causality
A proposed relationship between two variables (dependent and independent) and is
an informed guess - ✅✅ Hypothesis
, This variable is the variable for which we are looking for a change in - ✅✅
Dependent variable
This variable is the variable that creates change in the other variable - ✅✅
Independent variable
What is the term for defining hypothesis and a process of specifying a research
process? - ✅✅ Operationalization
The three things that makes research "good" - ✅✅ Validity, Reliability, and
Generalizability
This asks "does the study measure what it is intended to measure?" It is a
component of "good research" - ✅✅ Validity
This asks "if you conduct the study again, will you get the same results?" It is a
component of "good research" - ✅✅ Reliability
This asks "will the findings of this study apply to some other population or group
of people?" It is a component of "good research" - ✅✅ Generalizability
The study of one particular thing - ✅✅ Case study
The study of human society as a whole - ✅✅ Sociology
Who coined the term "sociological imagination?" - ✅✅ C. Wright Mills
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The idea that a change in one factor results in a corresponding change in another
factor - ✅✅ Causality
What three factors are needed to prove causation? - ✅✅ Correlation, time order,
and alternative explanations
This exists when there is simultaneous variation in variables, such as when
education goes up, income also goes up - ✅✅ Correlation
Logical explanations / ways of explaining things - ✅✅ Alternative explanations
Explanations that are false such as saying "when ice cream sales go up, murders
also go up, so murderers must love ice cream" - ✅✅ Spurious explanation
This occurs when a researcher believes that A is causing B, when in reality, B is
causing A. - ✅✅ Reverse causality
A proposed relationship between two variables (dependent and independent) and is
an informed guess - ✅✅ Hypothesis
, This variable is the variable for which we are looking for a change in - ✅✅
Dependent variable
This variable is the variable that creates change in the other variable - ✅✅
Independent variable
What is the term for defining hypothesis and a process of specifying a research
process? - ✅✅ Operationalization
The three things that makes research "good" - ✅✅ Validity, Reliability, and
Generalizability
This asks "does the study measure what it is intended to measure?" It is a
component of "good research" - ✅✅ Validity
This asks "if you conduct the study again, will you get the same results?" It is a
component of "good research" - ✅✅ Reliability
This asks "will the findings of this study apply to some other population or group
of people?" It is a component of "good research" - ✅✅ Generalizability
The study of one particular thing - ✅✅ Case study
The study of human society as a whole - ✅✅ Sociology
Who coined the term "sociological imagination?" - ✅✅ C. Wright Mills
