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MOCK EXAM FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH (07.01.2016)

Choose the correct or best answer

1) When you practice something because everyone in the

community does it since you were born, you are relying upon 6) This is a key element of a hypothesis
what source of knowledge.

a) Randomization
a) Media myths b) Variable
b) Tradition c) population
c) Authority d) Sample
d) Common sense
e) Personal experience

7) Children who eat Nutribun during breakfast perform

academically better in school than children who eat
2) To study the situation based on verifiable facts this research instant noodles for breakfast. What is the independent
perspective is called variable?

a) Positivism a) Type of food consumed

b) Interpretativism b) Academic performance
c) Critical perspective c) Children
d) Breakfast
e) School

3) You are using data collected by urban poor women to arouse 8) While a focus group discussion provides a lot of
and mobilize themselves to change their situation for the qualitative data, it lacks the ability to generalize its
better. In which research approach would your research findings to the general population.
belong?

a) True
a) Positivism b) False
b) Interpretativism
c) Critical perspective

9) A researcher conducted a study in collaboration with a

local people’s organization to determine community
4) Edna saw a meme in Facebook that announced the coming priorities.
end of the world, 30 days from now. This information created
anxiety on the part of Edna. Edna is relying on what source
of knowledge.

a) Participatory research
b) Key informant interview
a) Tradition c) Focus group discussion
b) Authority d) Participant observation
c) Personal experience
d) Common sense
e) Media myths
10) A probability sampling requires the randomization of the
selected samples
5) Since all humans are mortal, and I am a human, then I am
mortal. What logical reasoning is this?

a) Deductive a) True
b) Inductive b) False
c) Critical
d) None of the above
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11) The researcher made sure that the personal product.

circumstances of the respondents are not exposed in the
final report. This is called a) True
b) False
a) Confidentiality 20) The research design of exploratory studies are
b) Anonymity considered as
c) Secrecy
a) Cross-sectional study
12) The totality of objects, people, or event under study b) Longitudinal study
that possess certain characteristics c) Experimental study

a) Population 21) “The number of miles a person drives in a year is more

b) Sum total likely to affect his/her frequency of visits to the gas
c) Sample stations.” Identify the independent variable.
d) Data
a) No. of miles a person drives
b) Frequency of visit to gas stations
c) The year is more likely to affect

13) A survey that includes the entire population, it is 22) In the same hypothesis above in item #21, identify the
conducted by the NSO once every decade. dependent variable.

a) Random survey a) No. of miles a person drives

b) Multistage survey b) Frequency of visit to gas stations
c) Census c) The year is more likely to affect
d) Labor force
23) You have a contract to produce a report by October 15.
14) A general term for the sampling technique that gives You have encountered various delays. Fortunately you
elements for the population equal chance to be selected have a good idea of how the results are going to turn
as a sample. out, so you make up some data and finish the report on
time. What ethical lapse have you committed?
a) Purposive sampling
b) Convenience sampling a) Plagiarism
c) Random sampling b) Deception
d) Non-probabilistic sampling c) Fraud
d) B&c
15) Its a research approach whose distinctive characteristic e) A&b
is to gather data on the same set of respondents for
several years. 24) You need to take a sample of bath soap users to find out
their preferred brand. The method you employed was to
a) Participatory research interview just about anybody who exits a supermarket.
b) Longitudinal This method of data collection is called.
c) Qualitative
d) Case study a) Convenience sampling
b) Snowball sampling
16) Its a methodological approach that combines deductive c) Random sampling
logic with precise empirical observation.
25) Standardization of data collection method is an
a) Interpretative important condition of this type of research.
b) Conceptual framework
c) Critical a) Qualitative research
d) Positivism b) Quantitative research
c) Intensive research
17) The researcher respected the wishes of the respondent d) Extensive research
not be included in the study.
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a) Confidentiality
b) Anonymity
c) Privacy

18) The social context is particularly important to qualitative

data analysis.

a) True
b) False

19) A review of literature is both an activity and a written