Research Methodology MCQ 400
Research Methodology MCQ 400
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B- planning to get answers for what, why & where type of questions.
C- having a clear idea about the research problem solution.
D- none of the above.
4- Research objectives falls into a number of categories that include
A- planning to get answers for what, why & where type of questions.
B- considering the logic behind the methods we use in the context of the
research.
C- formulative, concept, and planning for research methods.
D- exploratory, descriptive, diagnostic and experimentation research.
5- Formulative research studies is a category of research that aims to
A- achieve new insights of a concept.
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B- analyze characteristics of something.
C- determine the frequency with which something occurs.
D- test the relationship between variables.
insights of a concept.
insights of a concept.
of philosophies.
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because information obtained via the internet ranges from very poor
to very good.
a. True
b. False
28. One step that is not included in planning a research study is:
a.Identifying a researchable problem
b.A review of current research
c. Statement of the research question
d.Conducting a meta-analysis of the research
e. Developing a research plan
29. Sources of researchable problems can include:
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a.ERIC
b.PsychINFO
c. SocioFILE
d.all of the above are potentially useful data bases
36. Computer database searches can be done:
a.With a computer with CD-ROM drive
b.At the library
c. Online
d.All of the above
37. The feasibility of a research study should be considered in light of:
a.Cost and time required to conduct the study
b.Skills required of the researcher
c. Potential ethical concerns
d.All of the above
38. A formal statement of the research question or “purpose of research study”
generally _____.
a.Is made prior to the literature review
b.Is made after the literature review
c. Will help guide the research process
d.All of the above
e. b and c
39. Is the following qualitative research purpose statement “well stated” or
“poorly stated”?
season?”
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49. In the research process, the management question has the following
critical activity in sequence.
50. The chapter that details the way in which the research was conducted is
the _________ chapter
a. Introduction
b. Literature review
c. Research methodology
d. Data analysis
e. Conclusion and recommendations
a. True
b. False
a. True
b. False
53. Adequate analysis of the data is the least difficult phase of research for
the novice.
a. True
b. False
54. The validity and reliability of the data should be checked occasionally
a. True
b. False
a. True
b. False
a. True
b. False
a. True
b. False
59. Research is any organized inquiry carried out to provide information for
solving problems.
a. True
b. False
a. True
b. False
a. True
b. False
a. Construct
b. Definition
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c. Concept
d. Variable
64. This is an idea or image specifically invented for a given research and/or
theory building purpose
a. Concept
b. Construct
c. Definition
d. Variables
65. The following are the synonyms for independent variable except
a. Stimulus
b. Manipulated
c. Consequence
d. Presumed Cause
66. The following are the synonyms for dependent variable except
a. Presumed effect
b. Measured Outcome
c. Response
d. Predicted from…
67. In the research process, a management dilemma triggers the need for a
decision.
a. True
b. False
68. Every research proposal, regardless of length should include two basic
sections. They are:
a. Work plan
b. Prospectus
c. Outline
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d. Draft plan
e. All of the above
71. Non response error occurs when you cannot locate the
person or could not encourage the respondent to participate in
answering.
a. True
b. False
72. Secondary data can almost always be obtained more quickly and at a
lower cost than
__________data.
a. Tertiary
b. Collective
c. Research
d. Primary
a. Marketing
b. Causal
c. Exploratory
d. Descriptive
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c. Good writing
d. All of the above
82. The facts that should be collected to measure a variable, depend upon the
a.Conceptual understanding
b. Dictionary meaning
c. Operational definition
d. All of the above
83. Which of the following is the best hypothesis?
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b. A report
c. A systematic enquiry
d. A procedure
a. Basic
b. Applied
c. Evaluation
d. Experimental
a. Independent variable
b. Dependent variable
c. Extraneous variable
d. Causal variable
a. Dissertations
c. Government Documents
d. Scholarly Books
98. The application of the scientific method to the study of business problems
is called:
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a. Inductive Reasoning
b. Deductive Reasoning
c. Business Research
d. Grounded Theory
a. Tradition
b. Inductive logic
c. Deductive logic
d. The scientific method
108. The function of the research design step in the research process is to
a. inform the reader of what you want to attain through the study.
b. search the existing literature in the area of research.
c. formulate the problem statement to decide what you want to find
out about.
d. provide for the collection of relevant information with minimal cost,
effort and time.
109. In preparing for the research design, the researcher should consider
a. objectives of the research study.
b. methods used for data collection.
c. source of information.
d. data analysis
e. all the above.
110. In carrying out the research design step considering IT fields, the
researcher should
a.- consider only pure technical issues.
b- consider other non-technical issues.
c- must have primary data secondary data.
d- use only observation methods in collecting data.
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b- examining the collected raw data to detect errors and correct them.
c- summarizing raw data and displaying them in compact form for further
analysis.
d- all the above.
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a. Research Methodology
b. Reference
c. Conclusion
d. None of these
a. Inferential statistics
b. Descriptive statistics
c. Data preparation
d. Data analysis
a. Yes
b. No
a. To identify problem
b. To find the solution
c. Both a and b
d. None of these
a. Artifacts (Visual)
b. People
c. Media products ( Textual, Visual and sensory)
d. All of these
Q133 Which of the following is non-probability sampling?
a. Snowball
b. Random
c. Cluster
d. Stratified
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a. Non-verbal analysis
b. Linguistic analysis
c.Spatial analysis
d. All of these
Q136 Uniting various qualitative methods with quantitative methods can be
called as........
a. Coalesce
b. Triangulation
c. Bipartite
d. Impassive
Q137 Multistage sampling is a ________
a. Probability sampling
b. Non-Probability sampling
b) Contingency theory
c) Strategic choice
d) Structuration
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b) does not allow for findings to feed back into the stock of knowledge.
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b) individuals are born into a world of rules and structures that they cannot
change.
a) Radical structuralist
b) Radical positivist
c) Functionalist
d) Interpretative
Question 146 Quantitative research is:
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c) The style in which you present your research findings, e.g. a graph.
d) the methods are stated clearly enough for the research to be replicated.
Question 150 "Internal validity" refers to:
c) the degree to which the researcher feels that this was a worthwhile
project.
d) how accurately the measurements represent underlying concepts.
a) impressiveness.
b) trustworthiness.
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c) joyfulness.
d) messiness.
Question 152 Naturalism has been defined as:
a) the one that is not manipulated and in which any changes are observed.
b) the one that is manipulated in order to observe any effects on the other.
c) The collection of data from more than one case at one moment in time.
b) A panel study does not need rules to handle new entrants to households.
d) A panel study can distinguish between age effects and cohort effects, but
a cohort design cannot.
Question 157 Cross cultural studies are an example of:
b) Comparative design
c) Experimental design
d) Longitudinal design
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c) Unless you can find a logical contradiction, you have no basis for
conducting research.
How can you tell if your research questions are really good?
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Which of the following should you think about when preparing your research?
Why is it helpful to keep a research diary or log book while you are conducting
your project?
c) To keep a record of what you did and what happened throughout the
research process.
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Question 166
What can you do to ensure your physical safety during your research?
c) Make sure someone knows where you are and how you can contact
them in an emergency.
What practical steps can you take before you actually start your research?
b) Make sure you are familiar with the hardware and software you plan
to use.
c) Because this implies that ethical concerns do not pervade all social
research.
e) Question 169
Which of the following ideas is not associated with the stance of situation
ethics?
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a) Anything goes
b) Principled relativism
d) No choice
Question 170
a) Physical injury
a) So that the participants cannot find out what has been written about
them.
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a) In-depth interviewing
c) Covert observation
d) Structured
interviewing Question
174
Why is it "easier said than done" to ensure that the principle of informed
consent is adhered to?
Apart from the fact that it is "not a nice thing to do", what is an
important ethical disadvantage of deceiving participants?
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b) Internal reliability
c) Inter-observer consistency
d) External validity
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Question 182
b) Face validity
c) Conductive validity
d) Converg
ent validity
Question 183
b) Internal reliability
c) External reliability
d) Inter
nal validity
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c) a list of all the units in the population from which a sample will be
selected.
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a) from a random starting point, every nth unit from the sampling frame
is selected.
What effect does increasing the sample size have upon the sampling error?
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c) Quota sampling
d) Convenien
ce sampling Question
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d) All graduate-level
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b) An overview of what the research is about and how the data will be
collected.
a) ensures that all respondents are asked every question on the schedule
and in the same order.
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d) one that researchers must present when they compete at pony club
events.
Question 207
b) respondents tend to give answers that they think are socially desirable.
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Question 213
When using a Likert scale with a long list of items, it is usually better to:
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c) they highlight the thoughts, feelings and experiences that are unique
to each respondent.
a) count the frequency with which each answer has been given.
c) identify the three most commonly cited responses and give them a code.
d) find out where each respondent lives and make a note of their postcode.
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b) ask people about the characteristics of a social setting or entity that they
know well.
d) try to identify the normative standards and values held by a social group.
Question 222
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b) they create a mismatch between the question and its possible answers.
a) test out your questions on some of the people who will be in the final
sample.
b) identify and amend any problems in the question wording, order and
format.
c) find out what a trained pilot would think of the subject matter.
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c) learning more about your topic so that you can devise leading questions.
d) The problem
of robustness Question
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a) Individuals
b) Incidents
d) Long time
periods Question
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a) the findings of such studies are not intended to have external validity.
b) Scan sampling
c) Emotional sampling
d) Behaviour sampling
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Question 234
a) inter-surveyor consistency.
b) intra-observer validity.
c) intra-coder validity.
d) inter-observer consistency.
Question 235
a) If people know they are being observed, they may change their
behaviour.
b) Research subjects may have a bad reaction to the drugs they are
given.
a) Interview transcripts
b) Newspaper articles
c) Song lyrics
b) To take into account any cultural variation in the way that courage
was perceived.
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b) significant actors
c) Words
d) subjects and
themes Question
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c) list all the categories that have been omitted from the schedule.
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Question 244
The data from each row in a coding schedule can be entered into a
quantitative analysis computer program called:
a) Endnote
b) N-Vivo
c) Outlook
d) SPSS
Question 245
d) It is a non-reactive method.
Question 247
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a) Internal generalisability
b) Intra-interviewer reliability
c) Construct validity
d) Inter-coder reliability
Question 248
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Question 251
The large samples used in national surveys enable new researchers to:
What is one of the advantages that official statistics have over structured
interview data?
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Studying levels of labour disputes may provide unreliable and/or invalid data
because:
a) The assumption that secondary data analysis can be carried out at home.
b) The researcher is removed from the social settings that they are
investigating.
c) The data were originally collected for the same purposes as those of the
current researcher.
d) They do not intrude too much into the researcher's spare time.
Question 258
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What is an outlier?
d) It compares the results you might get from various statistical tests.
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Question 262
b) +1
c) +0.328
d) - 1
Question 263
What is the name of the test that is used to assess the relationship between
two ordinal variables?
a) Spearman's rho
b) Phi
c) Cramer's V
d) Chi Square
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b) Type II error
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What does the operation "Recode Into Different Variables" do to the data?
a) Open the Output Viewer and click: Save As; Pie Chart
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Question 273
Why might you tell SPSS to represent the "slices" of a pie chart in different
patterns?
c) In order to make full use of the facilities that SPSS can offer.
a) Frequencies: Percentages
b) Crosstabs: Statistics
c) Bivariate: Pearson
d) Gender: Female
Question 276
To generate a Spearman's rho test, which set of instructions should you give
SPSS?
a) Analyze; Crosstabs; Descriptive Statistics; Spearman; OK
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How would you print a bar chart that you have just produced in SPSS?
a) In Output Viewer, click File, Print, select the bar chart and click OK
Question 278
a) Self-completion questionnaires
b) Surveys
c) Ethnography
d) Structured observation
Question 279
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b) Measurability
c) Dependability
d) Credibility
Question 282
b) Because once they have left the field, it is difficult to remember what
happened.
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a) the researcher does not impose any predetermined formats on the social
world.
c) the researcher can adapt their theories and methods as the project
unfolds.
Why has qualitative research been seen to have an affinity with feminism?
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What is one of the main disadvantages of using the covert role in ethnography?
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What is a gatekeeper?
a) Complete participant
b) Participant-as-observer
c) Observer-as-participant
d) Complet
e observer
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d) The problem of having used too many theories in one's data analysis.
Question 295
What is the difference between "scratch notes" and "full field notes"?
a) Scratch notes are just key words and phrases, rather than lengthy
descriptions.
b) Full field notes are quicker and easier to write than scratch notes.
c) Scratch notes are written at the end of the day rather than during key
events.
What are the two main types of data that can be used in visual ethnography?
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c) Structured interview
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b) Knowledgeable
c) Sensitive
d) Interpreting
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Question 308
c) words are constitutive of the social world in which they are located.
d) Analysis is
grounded in data
Question 311
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a) An intake of breath
b) A prolonged sound
d) A slight pause
Question 312
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Potter and Wetherell use the term "interpretative repertoires" to refer to:
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Question 318
What are Scott's four criteria for assessing the quality of documents?
d) Objectivity, subjectivity,
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c) To help them to see what has not been photographed and why.
Which of the following can be studied as a documentary source from the mass
media?
How does qualitative content analysis differ from quantitative content analysis?
What is semiotics?
a) The study of semi-detached houses.
b) Coding
c) External validity
d) Constant
comparison
Question 330
Why are Coffey and Atkinson critical of the way coding fragments qualitative
data?
Why did Riessman (1993) have problems coding data using traditional
qualitative methods?
a) The participants may not have given informed consent to the reuse of
their data.
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d) It helps you to map out the relations between ideas and themes in the
data.
Question 342
In what format should you import your project documents from Word into
NVivo?
a) .jpg or .mpg
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b) .pdf of .exe
c) .htm or .com
d) .doc or .rtf
Question 343
In which window can you read through, edit and code your documents?
a) Document Viewer
b) Node Explorer
c) Project Pad
d) Welcome Screen
Question 344
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Question 346
Which of the following is a kind of search that can be carried out in NVivo?
b) Intersection search
a) Marxism
b) Subjectivism
c) Interpretivism
d) Realism
Question 349
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Why might we say that quantitative researchers also try to study social
meanings?
Question 352
Which of the following is not one of the contrasts that has been
made to distinguish between quantitative and qualitative
research?
a) Behaviour versus meaning
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Question 353
c) The use of a survey instrument that has not been tested for inter-coder
reliability.
Question 354
d) Because it is concerned with the social world rather than the natural
world.
Question 355
What is "ethnostatistics"?
a) The study of the way statistics are constructed, interpreted and
represented.
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How does quantification help the qualitative researcher avoid being accused of
anecdotalism?
What is the name of one of the arguments that suggests that research
methods are inextricably linked to epistemological commitments?
a) Triangulation argument
b) Postmodern argument
d) Positivist argument
Question 359
a) Technical version
b) Methodological version
c) Epistemological version
d) Feminist version
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Question 360
What is triangulation?
Whereas quantitative research tends to bring out a static picture of social life,
qualitative research
depicts it as...
a) symmetrical
b) statistical
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c) processual
d) proverbial
Question 364
How might qualitative research help with the analysis of quantitative data?
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a) The use of visual data rather than written texts for content analysis.
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Question 371
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d) Face-to-face or by post
Question 375
b) It requires less expertise for the respondent to open and reply to it.
c) Recipients will be reassured that the message does not contain a virus.
Why is it argued that samples recruited online are not representative of the
general population?
b) Because Internet users are most likely to be white, young and middle
class.
c) Because women are less likely than men to volunteer for online social
research.
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Question 378
What is rhetoric?
b) Introduction
c) Confession
d) Results
Question 380
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c) give the impression that the results were objective and logically
inevitable.
Question 385
a) Positivism
c) Traditional ethnography
d) Existentialis
t philosophy Question
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a) The effects that their values, biases and theoretical leanings might
have had upon the data collection and analysis.
b) The way in which their findings unfolded naturally and inevitably through
logical deduction.
c) The way in which their findings are objectively truthful and valid.
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