Political Science - Introduction To Political Science Theory Methods - Quiz

In the Are You Equipped? section at the beginning of the chapter, a study was described looking at the relationship between birth weight and adolescent depression. In this study, what variable is being treated as the independent variable?

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How can researchers maximize the likelihood of getting good answers to sensitive questions?

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Countries with limits on government have usually had feudal pasts, which suggests what about the dispersion of power?

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Why was jealousy provoked in the Iranian people, despite the booming economy of the early to mid-1970s?

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Define convenience sampling

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A sports psychologist develops a new technique that might improve accuracy in shooting free throws in school children

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Which of the following is one of the three most common types of methodologies used in single case designs?

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The Due Process Clause of the U.S. Constitution focuses on "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

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What is one political advantage of social media possessed neither by televised nor print media?

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What are the aims of terrorists via their calculated acts of terrorism?

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Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama were prime examples of __________

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Put the objectives of science in the correct logical order:

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In British and American criminal cases, the police investigate and report to a public prosecutor, often a county's district attorney. The case is then passed to a judge who must decide whether to prosecute

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In 2007, Talking Points Memo jolted the conventional media by reporting which of the following stories?

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Which of the following is NOT a function of hypotheses?

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Carefully review the research matrix presented below. If this is a within subjects design, how many total participants will be used in the experiment?

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Strong-willed U.S. presidents have resisted the authority of the Court. Which of the following presidents notably disagreed with the Court's decisions?

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Farris et al. conducted a study to determine if men and women were equal in their ability to judge women's nonverbal cues. In this example, what was the IV?

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Likert-scaled items cannot be combined into an index

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There will be no relationship between children's time in day care and later academic

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The legislative veto, in one form or another, continues to be widely used by Congress, despite a Supreme Court decision finding it unconstitutional

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Why might authoritarianism have spread in newly independent nations around the early midtwentieth century?

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Dr. Mottle's research proposal contains a description of the research problem and its importance. What is she missing?

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Many Western European governments added __________ to their cabinets in the 1980s

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The move to curtail the extensive government oversight of private firms during the 1980's is called _____

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Dr. Smarsh is investigating the effect of room temperature on memory while Dr. McArdle is investigating the effect of study time on memory. Both researchers use a reading comprehension test to operationalize memory in their studies

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When people think others are going to judge their behaviors, those people begin to experience

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A probability sampling technique in which a researcher identifies naturally occurring clusters of individuals from a population to select from is called probability sampling

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Aspirin and thermos are examples of

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Long the dean of television anchors, Walter Cronkite stated that television news was just a "__________ service."

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Which of these was the first to establish judicial review?

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A planning effort that helps an organization match its objectives and capabilities to the anticipated demands of the environment to produce a plan of action that will ensure achievement of objectives is called

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An issue that occurs when a scientist quotes statistics in excessive detail is called __________(4 words)

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A research technique that combines features of both longitudinal and cross-sectional designs – testing cohorts of individuals but also retesting them over time – is referred to as a __________ design

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Prior to 1930, poverty was not seen as a problem, but was viewed as an inevitable social condition

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The nonequivalent comparison-group design does NOT have which of the following?

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In a win-win atmosphere, two parties believe that:

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The federal prosecutor is interested in having more defendants plead guilty. She has come up with a procedure to make plea requests more equitable and thus more appealing to the defendants. However, she is not sure that the process is completely legal. She sends a letter to the local Circuit Court requesting its opinion. How should the Circuit Court respond?

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As young people begin to pay income or property taxes, they tend to __________

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Tim has spent the past several months collecting data for his study. However, he begins to realize his results are not coming out the way he planned. To fix this "problem," Tim begins inputting his data incorrectly

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A person who has an unusually excellent memory is studied for a better understanding of this interesting case. The self-reports of how this mnemonist remembers constitute

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