POLS 359 Final Exam Review

Which of the following does not belong in a political science paper

Which of the following contains three elements of a good theory?

Which of the following is a uni-dimensional concept?

Which of the following best describes the difference b/w a lab and a natural experiment?

Which of the following is NOT a component of process tracing?

Conceptualization is best defined as...

What is the difference between an interval and a ratio variable?

Which term refers to the process of defining precise measurements for abstract concepts?

Inductive research is conducted from the "top down", beginning with a general theory

___ statistics describe the sample;___ statistics describe the population based on the sample

Which of the following is not a scale type of a variable?

A variable which affects the strength of a relationship between two other variables is

The Stanford Prison experiment is an example of

What type of research is most similar to/a type of participant observation?

Which part of a paper focuses on detailing existing knowledge?

A researcher who prefers the simplest useful explanation is a researcher who prefers ___theory

Which of the following is not a measure of the central tendency of data?

____ refers to constraints on the population we are studying; ____ is the level of aggregation

information on the occupation of respondents would be what type of variable?

Which type of interview Q would give you info about "a day in the life" of your interviewee?

Which is not an example of quantitative data?

Which of the following will identify the direction of a relationship?

What of the following is true about the distinction between basic and applied research?

Which of the following is not a stage in the scientific method?

Longitudinal variation is variation

Which term refers to a variable that can not be directly observed?

_____ factors come from outside a given process

__ refers to an alternative reality in which everything is the same except for a key variable

Which of the following defines external validity?

Parsimony is...

Which type of experiment takes place in a "real world" setting?

A theory should be

The Institutional Review Board...

Which type of variable has an intrinsic order?

What is the best definition of a hypothesis?

Testing hypotheses with numerical data is generally considered

The consistency with which a measure accurately captures a concept is....

Which of the following is a component of a hypothesis?

The feature of the experiment that researchers manipulate in order to test its effects is the__

What is the purpose of an indicator?

What is the difference between quantitative and qualitative data?

The two components of measurement reliability are

X is theorized to cause Y. Which is the dependent variable?