Exam 1: Crime Criminal-Justice And-Scientific-Inquiry

What method is known as the science of finding out?

The first part of most scholarly journal articles is:

means repeating a study,checking to see whether similar results are obtained each time.

Astor repeated a study to determine if she would obtain similar results that were found in her original study,and thereby engaged in:

The objective of the text is to help future criminal justice professionals become:

Human inquiry attempts to answer what two questions?

Discuss the difference between inductive and deductive reasoning.Give examples of each.

Social regularities represent:

Prediction can be made better by observation and remembering regular:

Stepping on a thorn for the first time and realizing that it is painful before anyone tells you it is painful is an example of:

Selective observation is a danger of overgeneralization.

Two pillars of science are:

Although social scientists study motivations that affect individuals,____________________ are more often the subjects of social science research.

Overgeneralization can lead to misrepresentation and:

During observation,if you choose to follow "the exception that proves the rule," you have made what error?

Eye witness testimony that turns out to be inaccurate is an example of the inaccurate ____________________ type of error in personal human inquiry.

Patterns of cause and effect are ____________________ in nature.

When we attempt to gather base line data,usually because of new technology or some new law,the purpose of our research is:

Traditional beliefs about patrol effectiveness,response time,and detective work are examples of:

If the independent variable is the cause then the dependant variable is the: