Something you eat three times a day, A strategy for writing literature reviews

What is a descriptive literature review?

A literature review organised into main themes

Why do research projects need a research question?

Research questions guide every decision about the research

Ethical considerations are important

During all stages of the research project, Never - I aim to be an evil scientist.... :-D

What is conceptualisation?

Finding a definition for a concept

Labels for the measurable counterparts of concepts

Abstract and unobservable mental pictures

A measure that measures what it claims to measure

A short summary of a research paper

Hypothesis: gang membership has an effect on adolescents' fear of victimisation. Which statement is true?

Adolescents fear of victimisation is the dependent variable

How things are expected to work

repeatedly provides consistent measurement

Hypothesis: Aggressive behaviour in children is caused by fear. What is the dependent variable?

Aggressive behaviour in children

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MEAL is....
Something you eat three times a day
A strategy for writing literature reviews
A strategy for choosing research methods
A strategy for formulating research questions
2
What is a descriptive literature review?
A literature review that uses the MEAL writing strategy
A literature review that excludes explanatory and exploratory research
A literature review organised into main themes
A literature review that is organised chronologically
3
Mary Dodge interviewed female police who worked in prostitution investigations. Her research is...
Quantitative
Mixed-methods
Qualitative
Geographical Information systems (GIS)
4
Hypothesis: age affects fear of crime. What is the independent variable?
Fear of crime
None of the answers are correct
Both age and fear of crime are independent variables
Age
5
A testable statement about the relationship between variables is...
an observation
a hypothesis
all answers are correct
a research question
6
Why do research projects need a research question?
Research questions guide every decision about the research
Research questions are asked while doing interviews / surveys
Research questions ensure that all hypotheses are confirmed
Research questions ensure that research methods are conducted ethically
7
Ethical considerations are important
All of the above
During all stages of the research project
Only when choosing research methods, at no other time
Never - I aim to be an evil scientist.... :-D
8
Which of the following is NOT a key principle of the Belmont report
Beneficence
Justice
Respect for persons
Freedom
9
What is conceptualisation?
Finding a definition for a concept
Deciding whether to include a concept in the study
Deciding whether a concept is relevant
Finding the best way to measure a concept
10
What are variables
Labels for the measurable counterparts of concepts
Individual pieces of numeric information
Response categories on a questionnaire
Legal or ethical rules for the collection of research data
11
Concepts are....
Measurements that are always the same
Categories that can be rank-ordered
Data gathered for a particular variable
Abstract and unobservable mental pictures
12
Which of the following is an appropriate source in a literature review?
An article from a mainstream national newspaper
A government report
Data you have collected in a research study
All answers are correct
13
A valid measure is:
A measure that is strongly correlated with an outcome
A measure that measures what it claims to measure
A measure that has been approved by an ethics board
A measure that has been used by other researchers
14
Which search term will get the least "hits" and find the most specific papers?
police and impersonation
“impersonation of police”
"police" or "impersonation"
police or impersonation
15
An abstract is....
A personal experience that inspires new research
The operationalisation of a concept
A short summary of a research paper
A primary source
16
Hypothesis: gang membership has an effect on adolescents' fear of victimisation. Which statement is true?
Gang membership is the dependent variable
Adolescents fear of victimisation is the independent variable
Adolescents fear of victimisation is the dependent variable
All statements are correct
17
Theories describe...
How things are expected to work
Quantitative data
The implementation of a program
New knowledge about a topic
18
A reliable measure
captures the meaning of the abstract concept
measures the concept it is designed to measure
is unobservable, uncountable and intangible
repeatedly provides consistent measurement
19
A summary of a journal article is called _____
Induction
Deduction
Abstract
None of the other answers are correct
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Hypothesis: Aggressive behaviour in children is caused by fear. What is the dependent variable?
It depends
Aggressive behaviour in children
Fear
There is no dependent variable

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