Credibility of Sources

Question 1

What is a bibliography?

Accepted Answer

All of the above.

Question 2

When you evaluate a secondary source, you are trying to determine how accurate and reliable it is.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

Historians evaluate the credibility of sources. What is one of the criteria that historians consider?

Accepted Answer

the accuracy and internal consistency of the source

Question 4

People can be stereotyped by their?

Accepted Answer

All of the above

Question 5

You can find an author's qualifications and impact by researching the author.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

What is the act of comparing pieces of evidence to see where they agree or disagree?

Accepted Answer

Corroboration

Question 7

Which characteristic would make a source more credible? (slect ALL correct answers)

Accepted Answer

The source is in agreement with other credible sources., The author is a recognized expert on the topic.

Question 8

What does it mean to evaluate something?

Accepted Answer

Make a judgement using analysis and in-depth thinking (deciding it's worth)

Question 9

Stereotypes can be generalisations which are positive or negative

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

The evaluation of a team on your personal liking for its players rather than past performance is an example of bias?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

One way to determine the credibility of a written source is to see if the source agrees with other reliable sources.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

Diaries are examples of secondary sources.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 13

Would Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech be a Primary or Secondary source?

Accepted Answer

Primary

Question 14

Why would providing the reader with a bibliography make a book more credible?

Accepted Answer

The reader can check the information with other credible sources.

Question 15

An author's qualifications added to a website are important because

Accepted Answer

it can tell you if the author has studied the topic

Question 16

primary sources give you secondhand information and secondary sources give you raw knowledge

Accepted Answer

False

Question 17

It is your job as a reader to evaluate each secondary or primary source you use for research?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

What does it mean to analyze something?

Accepted Answer

To break down in parts, tell about the parts

Question 19

What is meant by the phrase "credibility of sources"?

Accepted Answer

documents is trustworthy and believable

Question 20

Define Bias:

Accepted Answer

Showing likeness/dis-likeness and not being impartial.

Question 21

Author's Purpose

Accepted Answer

The motive or reason for which an author writes, as to entertain or inform

Question 22

Which of the following characteristics would make a source more credible...

Accepted Answer

The source is consistant all the way through.

Question 23

Historians use primary and secondary sources to learn about the past.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

An author's qualifications can show that the author is-

Accepted Answer

a reliable, trustworthy source of information.

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