Week 1 - In ethnography, your role as a researcher is to

Week One

QUESTION 1

In ethnography, your role as a researcher is to

a.study animal subjects in their natural environment.

b.make careful observations and record the social structure of the group.

c.identify factors in a person’s past that may have contributed to current behavioral problems.

d.determine the network of interpersonal relations within a group.

QUESTION 2

Write the first words for the following pages in your textbook  in order:

226

356

6

324

QUESTION 3

If you were to analyze transcripts of congressional hearings for instances of certain types of behavior, you would be usingthe case history method.

participant observation.

naturalistic observation.

content analysis.

QUESTION 4

Observer bias occurs whenonly one observer is used.

observers are blind to the purposes of a study.

observers are not trained.

observers know the goals of a study or the hypotheses being tested.

QUESTION 5

You are a psychotherapist who has a client with a unique combination of symptoms.

With your client's permission, you write an article summarizing and interpreting those symptoms.

The method of research being used here isarchival research.

the case history method.content analysis.

a quasi-experiment.

QUESTION 6

_______ involves identifying and measuring interpersonal relationships within a group.

Ethnography

Content analysis

The case history method

Sociometry

QUESTION 7

In ________, you study existing records.

a case historynaturalistic

observationparticipant

observationarchival research

QUESTION 8

________ is a method of reviewing and summarizing literature in which you statistically combine or compare the results from different studies.

Meta-analysis

A traditional literature review

Literature analysis

Library research analysis

QUESTION 9

Cohen’s Kappa is used toevaluate interrater reliability.determine how reliable a single observer is.evaluate the validity of your behavior categories.determine whether a single observer's observations are accurate.

 

 

QUESTION 10

You are interested in studying the mating habits of chimpanzees. Consequently, you travel to Africa and observe a group of chimpanzees from afar.

The method being used in this example is field experimentation.

content analysis.

naturalistic observation.

participant observation.