MCQ Bank
All of the following are disadvantages of Internet Surveys EXCEPT:
- A) All People cannot participate
- B) Lack of respondent's anonymity
- C) All people do not have same level of technology
- D) No Physical Incentive
In__________study, relationship among variables is explained.
- A) Qualitative
- B) Exploratory
- C) Explanatory
- D) Descriptive
________ is a measure in which the researcher captures the level of a variable construct.
- A) Index
- B) Scale
- C) Combining
- D) Collapsing
The summary description of a given variable in a population is called as:
- A) Observation unit
- B) Statistic
- C) Parameter
- D) Sampling unit
Which of the following best defines the population of study?
- A) The total collection of elements about which we wish to make some inferences
- B) None of the given option
- C) Some selected elements from a population through which we can draw conclusions about all population
- D) The subject on which the measurement is being taken
Which of the following is a measure in which a researcher adds or combines several distinct indicators of a construct into a single score?
- A) Unidimensionality
- B) Weighting
- C) Scale
- D) Index
A master plan which specifies the methods and procedures for collecting and analyzing the data is called:
- A) Research type
- B) Research budget
- C) Research design
- D) Research feedback
All of the following options are ethical issues in lab experiment EXCEPT;
- A) Using research results to disadvantage the participants
- B) Exposing participants to physical or mental stress
- C) Debriefing the participants accurately after the experiment is over
- D) Deceiving subjects by deliberately misleading them
To establish that variable X cause’s variable Y, all of the following conditions should be met, EXCEPT;
- A) X (the presumed causal factor) should precede Y
- B) None of the given options
- C) Other factors should possibly cause the change in the dependent variable Y
- D) Both X and Y should co-vary
Control for a third variable makes a:
- A) One variable table.
- B) Trivariate table.
- C) Bivariate table.
- D) None of the above.
Which of the following control techniques that is available to researcher, controls for both known and unknown variables?
- A) Building the extraneous variable into the design
- B) Random assignment
- C) Analysis of covariance
- D) Matching
In an experimental research study, the primary goal is to isolate and identify the effect produced by which of the following?
- A) Extraneous variable
- B) Independent variable
- C) Dependent variable
- D) Confounding variable
Which of the following is the process of marking segments of data with symbols, descriptive words or category?
- A) Coding
- B) Concurring
- C) Segmenting
- D) Coloring
A study that involves no researcher intervention is called __________.
- A) A non involvement study
- B) A quasi-experimental study
- C) An experimental study
- D) An observational study
In frequency tables total of columns and rows are called:
- A) Area of table
- B) Cell of table
- C) Body of table
- D) Marginal
In quasi-experimental research designs, causal interpretations can be made _______.
- A) Only when rival explanations have been shown to be implausible
- B) Only when rival explanations have been shown to be plausible
- C) Only when there is a single participant in the experiment
- D) Only when the participants have been randomly selected
Frequency distribution technique can be used for which of the following scales?
- A) All of the given options
- B) Ordinal
- C) Nominal
- D) Interval
The incidence of refusal in mall intercept interviews is _______________.
- A) Moderate
- B) High
- C) Low
- D) Nil