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SMPA 2151 Midterm 2025/2026 Exam
Questions Marking Scheme New Update
| A+ Rated
quantitative research methods (5) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔surveys, polls, content
analysis, field experiments, lab experiments
qualitative research methods (8) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔ethnography, overt participant
observation, covert participant observation, cultural studies, cultural/legal/material
studies, historiography
which research method can be considered both quantitative and qualitative? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔focus groups
operationalization - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the process by which a concept becomes a
variable
operational definition - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a carefully worded statement of the exact
procedures used in a research study
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conceptual definition - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a researcher's definition of a variable at the
theoretical level
all research in hard and social sciences has to _________ - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔happen
in relation to something else
digetic - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔in the world of the created landscape. e.g. sound that
could logically be heard by the characters in the film.
empirical - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔based on observation or experience rather than theory
or pure logic
epistomology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔study of knowledge itself. derives from the
enlightenment.
heuristics - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔mental shortcuts; tools/techniques we use to generate,
extend, or interpret knowledge
positionality - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔we don't leave ourselves at the door of the lab. we
are the product of our own identities. researchers can strive for "objectivity," but
we are subjects not objects.
presentism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔interpreting and evaluating historical events in terms
of contemporary knowledge and standards
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SMPA 2151 Midterm 2025/2026 Exam
Questions Marking Scheme New Update
| A+ Rated
quantitative research methods (5) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔surveys, polls, content
analysis, field experiments, lab experiments
qualitative research methods (8) - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔ethnography, overt participant
observation, covert participant observation, cultural studies, cultural/legal/material
studies, historiography
which research method can be considered both quantitative and qualitative? - 🧠
ANSWER ✔✔focus groups
operationalization - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔the process by which a concept becomes a
variable
operational definition - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a carefully worded statement of the exact
procedures used in a research study
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COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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conceptual definition - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔a researcher's definition of a variable at the
theoretical level
all research in hard and social sciences has to _________ - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔happen
in relation to something else
digetic - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔in the world of the created landscape. e.g. sound that
could logically be heard by the characters in the film.
empirical - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔based on observation or experience rather than theory
or pure logic
epistomology - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔study of knowledge itself. derives from the
enlightenment.
heuristics - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔mental shortcuts; tools/techniques we use to generate,
extend, or interpret knowledge
positionality - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔we don't leave ourselves at the door of the lab. we
are the product of our own identities. researchers can strive for "objectivity," but
we are subjects not objects.
presentism - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔interpreting and evaluating historical events in terms
of contemporary knowledge and standards
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COPYRIGHT©NINJANERD 2025/2026. YEAR PUBLISHED 2025. COMPANY REGISTRATION NUMBER: 619652435. TERMS OF USE. PRIVACY
STATEMENT. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
