List of practice Questions

_________ does not allow direct generalizations to a specific population, usually because the population is not defined explicitly.

All the following statements are true about snowball sampling except:

Which of the following is not a data collection method?

Which statement is not true regarding the relationship between reliability and validity?

Which of the following is not an objective of a questionnaire?

The great weakness of questionnaire design is lack of ________.

A _________ is a single question that attempts to cover two issues.

Which of the following statements is not an advantage of unstructured questions?

Which of the following statements is not a disadvantage of structured questions?

When developing a questionnaire, the six Ws (who, what, when, where, why, and way) are used when ________.

The conditions that must be satisfied before making causal inferences include all the following except:

Which of the following statements is not true concerning the time order of occurrence of variables?

When considering _________, accumulated evidence from several investigations increases our confidence that a causal relationship exists.

A ________ is a measurement scale with five response categories ranging from “strongly disagree” to “strongly agree,” which requires the respondents to indicate a degree of agreement or disagreement with each of a series of statements related to the stimulus objects.

________ is the extent to which a scale produces consistent results if repeated measurements are made on the characteristic.

________ is a type of validity, sometimes called face validity, that consists of a subjective but systematic evaluation of the representativeness of the content of a scale for the measuring task at hand.

Research designs may be broadly classified as _________ or _________

Cross-sectional and longitudinal designs are types of:

Which of the following statements is not true about exploratory research?

Descriptive research is conducted for all the following reasons except:

The question, “How did the Indian people rate the performance of Finance Minister immediately after the demonetization?” would be addressed using a _______. However, a _______ would be used to address the question, “How did the Indian people change their view of Finance Minister’s performance over the past three years?”

Which of the following is not a disadvantage of secondary data?

Whenever a new research problem is being addressed, ................. research must be preceded by appropriate ................ research.

A conceptual scheme based on foundational statements called axioms, which are assumed to be true, is:

Which statement about hypotheses is not true?