Exam 3: Factors Influencing the Research Process

Discuss how two social work practice models might lead to different hypotheses about school social work with children who are disruptive in the classroom.​

Discuss the difference between idiographic and nomothetic causal models of understanding.​

Which of the following illustrates the use of the inductive method?

A probabilistic explanation takes the form

Contrast the inductive model of theory construction with the deductive model. Give examples of research that use each of these models.​

Explain how a study could be conducted within the critical social science paradigm using research methods associated with the positivist paradigm.​

An ideology is:​

The nomothetic model is inevitably probabilistic in its approach to causation. s possible.​

Which of the following are variables?

How are theory and research linked? Give examples.​

A study that attempts to maximize precision and objectivity in testing whether an intervention reduces an undesirable behavior is being guided by what paradigm?​

Scientific inquiry is a process involving an alternation of deduction and induction.​

"African American" is a variable that has the attribute of "ethnicity."​

​The idiographic model seeks to understand everything about a particular case, through the use of as many causative factors as possible.

In the hypothesis, "Parental praise increases child self-esteem, level of self-esteem is the dependent variable.​

A study that attempts to gather data as ammunition for advocating for a particular cause is being guided by what paradigm?​

Suppose a study finds a relationship in which neglectful parents who abuse alcohol or drugs are more likely to benefit from intervention A, while neglectful parents who do NOT abuse alcohol or drugs are more likely to benefit from intervention B. Identify the two variables and four attributes in that relationship.​

The empowerment paradigm focuses on using research to empower oppressed groups.​