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9. The distinguishing characteristic of non-experimental research…
9. The distinguishing characteristic of non-experimental research designs is that:
A. they are used to study events that have not yet occurred.
B. they are not used to study cause-and-effect relationships.
C. they use special statistical techniques.
D. they do not use quantitive methods.
10. Researchers sometimes use correlations to do which of the following?
A. determine causality
B. manipulate the IV
C. make predictions
D. understand axial coding
11. Researchers conduct a study and find a positive relationship between weight and blood cholesterol level. This is a research finding from what type of research design?
A. correlational
B. descriptive
C. experimental
D. qualitative
12. Children with low, medium, and high IQs differ significantly on the Iowa Basics Skills exam. This is a research finding from what type of research design?
A. correlational
B. descriptive
C. experimental
D. quasi-experimental
13. Bess conducts a study in which she measures self-esteem and grade point average in a sample of 50 college students. She hypothesizes that higher self-esteem will be associated with higher grade point average. This research approach is best described as ______________ research.
A. archival
B. causal
C. correlational
D. ethnographic
14. A grade school teacher is interested in whether more males or females use their left hand as their dominant hand. She asks her class of 28 students to write down their gender and whether they are left-handed or right-handed. Then she calculates the percentages of right-handed and left-handed students among males and females to see whether more males or females are left-handed. Which type of research design is being used by the teacher?
A. correlational
B. descriptive
C. experimental
D. qualitative
15. Amala spends several hours at a local playground observing how often the children engage in cooperative as well as competitive activities. Amala’s investigation can best be described as:
A. descriptive research
B. experimental research
C. quasi-experimental research
D. relational research
16. Dana conducts a study in which she compares the graffiti on the walls of male and female restrooms. Dana has conducted an:
A. archival study.
B. ex post facto study.
C. experiment.
D. ethnography
17. When a study is conducted properly, which of the following research designs ranks higher on the hierarchy of evidence?
A. Correlational research
B. Descriptive research
C. Experimental research
D. Quasi-experimental research
18. James conducts a study in a large urban area on the number of churches and amount of crime and finds a strong positive relationship between the two (in other words, the more churches there are in a location, the more crime there is). What should James conclude?
A. Churches cause crimes and their numbers should be reduced.
B. Committing crimes causes more people to go to church.
C. High population density causes both increases in crime and increases in churches.
D. None of the above are appropriate conclusions.
