CAS 204 Review Game

If your experiment setting differs significantly from a real-life setting, you are having a problem with...

"First place, second place, third place" is an example of what type of measurement?

Which of these is a thesis?

Which classical ethical perspective seeks the greatest good for the most people?

Which of these is a hypothesis?

Which researcher-participant relationship requires the most distance between the researcher and the participants?

___ are people who make access to a community or culture possible.

Which is NOT an example of a rhetorical text?

A classification system or categories into which each sampled unit can be placed in called what?

Where would you most likely find a peer reviewed study?

When you're using a minimal interview protocol and relying on impromptu questions arising, you are conducting a...

If you ask respondents to assess something on a Likert scale of 1-5, what survey question design should you use?

Name that type of experiment: O1 O2 O3 O4 X O5 O6 O7

Which is a type of qualitative analysis software?

If you distribute your survey to your classmates for your study, you are engaging in

Which is NOT a type of nonprobability sampling?

Which library database should you start with when doing communication research?

Reasoning that begins with a theory and then uses observations to test the theory is called what?

___ is •when even you don’t know what participants said what.

Name that type of experiment: O1 X O2

In most cases, you need IRB approval before you can conduct a content analysis.

___ is a summary, synthesis, and evaluation of previously published work on your topic.

___ are statistics used with data assumed to have a normal distribution.

___ means the tail is in the high numbers.

Which of these is a closed-ended research question?

____ is a systematic process of asking and answering questions about human communication.

Correlation indicates causality.

If you have two modes, you have ____.

___ is the study of human social behavior or cultures.

___ is manipulating one variable to see if another variable thought to be related to it changes as a result.

What does IRB stand for?

In an interview setting, people who feel they can speak for themselves and others are called what?

What is considered an excellent correlation coefficient?

______ hypotheses state that there is no relationship between variables.

The larger a _____, the further its value from the group’s mean.

Tom's research claims that there was a significant result, but there was not. What error did Tom make?

A ___ compares the means of two groups on the same variable to determine the probability that the groups are different.

Which of these studies does NOT require IRB if you are planning to present your findings at a conference?

____ is a research method used to better understand a culture or phenomenon, and the author’s role in it.

If you ask respondents open-ended questions, what survey question design should you use?

What are the two types of sampling called?

When you add all the individual values and then divide by the number of values, you are calculating the....

When you rely on members of a network to introduce you to other members of their network, you are engaging in...

If you want respondents to choose more than one options as applicable, what survey question design should you use?

If you are sampling every 20th person on a master list, you are engaging in

What type of measurement includes a "true zero?"

___ is a distribution of values that is peaked or high relative to the normal curve.

An idiographic worldview emphasizes what?

If you conduct a public opinion poll about one politican's job performance, what type of survey are you using?

____ is the number of times which a particular value occurs.

Which of these is a open-ended research question?

You would use a Likert scale for what type of measurement?

Which is NOT a type of probability sampling?

"Do you think the university president is doing a good job, or do you think he should resign?" is an example of a...

Which is an example of a fragmented text?

Which is NOT required to be included in your survey?

____ is a way of looking at the “middle ground” of dispersion.

___ is a measure of the extent to which a test or measure performs consistently.

Which of these is NOT an epistemological approach?

Which of these is a proper in-text citation in APA?

"In a typical semester, how do you use social networking sites?" is an example of what type of interview question?

"Pennsylvania, Illinois, California, Texas" is an example of what type of measurement?

A _____ emphasizes objective observation and measurement.

___ is a selected segment of a population presumed to represent that population.

Interviewing a small group of people together at the same time is called what?

____ is a statistical method for estimating the strength of relationships among variables.

_____ addresses the nature of what we study.

Which is NOT something you might study with content analysis?

___ are studies that record and interpret individual and group behaviors in their natural settings.

___ is a measure of whether a test measures what it is supposed to measure.

Which of these causes an external validity problem?

The Pennsylvania lottery is a type of...

A list of questions in the order that you plan to ask them at the interview is called what?

____ describe the distribution of data in summary numbers that will tell you a lot about the nature of the raw data.

___ is a distribution of values that is flat or low relative to the normal curve.

___ is a curve resulting from the plot of values with a normal distribution.

___ is the process of finding out whether people/media content have more or less of a particular attribute.

For a study you plan to publish, you need IRB approval BEFORE collecting any data from human participants.

Data with incremental values between the minimum and maximum is called what?

___ is not releasing any information that identifies your participants even if you know what each participant said.

____ help us generalize about a wider population from a smaller sample of it.

What is the square root of variance?

What is an emic perspective?

___ is a question or measure that appears to capture the concept it is intended to capture.

Which is the only survey design that allows us to assess causality?

__ is a quantitative, systematic, and objective technique for describing tangible & observable content of communications

____ is a communication methodology that allows you to analyze a text for meanings about life or society.

"Stat 200 should not be required for the Corporate Com major - choose Yes or No" is an example of a...

Which contemporary code of ethics emphasizes autonomy, beneficience, and justice?