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SOCI 301 STUDY Questions and Correct
Answers
Belmont Report 3 principles Ans: respect, beneficence, justice
nominal Ans: can be categorized, no real order
ordinal Ans: categorized and ranked - hierarchical value
scale Ans: categorized, ordered, and evenly spaced - Variables
have fixed distance between values - but no genuine zero point
ratio Ans: categorized, ordered, and evenly spaced - Variables
have fixed distance between values - with zero point
Informed consent Ans: an ethical principle that research
participants be told enough to enable them to choose whether they
wish to participate
Causality Ans: the relationship between cause and effect
Causation Ans: A cause and effect relationship in which one
variable controls the changes in another variable.
Correlation Ans: A measure of the relationship between two
variables
Association Ans: IV and DV vary together
Time Order Ans: Variation in DV occurred after variation in IV
Nonspuriousness Ans: association between IV and DV is NOT due
to a 3rd (or extraneous) variable
cross-sectional design Ans: an observational research method that
collects data from a sample of a population at a single point in
time to assess the prevalence of outcomes and exposures
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SOCI 301 STUDY Questions and Correct
Answers
Belmont Report 3 principles Ans: respect, beneficence, justice
nominal Ans: can be categorized, no real order
ordinal Ans: categorized and ranked - hierarchical value
scale Ans: categorized, ordered, and evenly spaced - Variables
have fixed distance between values - but no genuine zero point
ratio Ans: categorized, ordered, and evenly spaced - Variables
have fixed distance between values - with zero point
Informed consent Ans: an ethical principle that research
participants be told enough to enable them to choose whether they
wish to participate
Causality Ans: the relationship between cause and effect
Causation Ans: A cause and effect relationship in which one
variable controls the changes in another variable.
Correlation Ans: A measure of the relationship between two
variables
Association Ans: IV and DV vary together
Time Order Ans: Variation in DV occurred after variation in IV
Nonspuriousness Ans: association between IV and DV is NOT due
to a 3rd (or extraneous) variable
cross-sectional design Ans: an observational research method that
collects data from a sample of a population at a single point in
time to assess the prevalence of outcomes and exposures
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