Exam 2: Research Methods in Sociological Social Psychology

Which method of data collection did social psychologist Allison Hurst use in her study of working-class college students, discussed in Chapter 2?

Snowball sampling involves:

In overt participant observation:

Compare the relative strengths and weaknesses of quantitative and qualitative research focusing on three issues: validity, reliability, and generalizability.

If college students' grades decrease as their levels of alcohol consumption increase, then alcohol consumption and grades:

Participant observation is often used to study how people construct meanings through their face-to-face interactions.

Why are secondary data analyses relatively free from ethical problems?

A flag is a symbol of

If you downloaded data from the 2010 General Social Survey (GSS) and analyzed it for a paper on income and happiness, you would be conducting a(n):

Ethnographic research is virtually identical in focus to survey research conducted over the Internet.

Why aren't spurious relationships a problem when data are collected using a laboratory experiment?

Historically, there have been very few, if any, instances in which researchers in this country have violated the rights of their subjects.

Which of the following methods of data collection is the most likely to yield results high in internal validity?

Sociological social psychologists define a subculture as a:

In order to conclude that an independent and dependent variable are causally related, a researcher must know that the independent variable preceded the dependent variable in time. In which of the following situations is time order likely to be a problem in the analysis of survey data?

The observed positive relationship between the presence of a crosswalk and pedestrian fatalities in a large city is probably:

A sample is representative of a population when:

Which of the following methods of data collection involves the manipulation of an independent Variable by the researcher?

Standing outside of a local grocery store and interviewing people who walk by is a good way to obtain a representative sample of people in your community.

What method of data collection did Laud Humphrys use in his study of homosexual encounters among men in public restrooms, published as the book Tearoom Trade?