What is meant by "falsifiability"?
A. It means the research report contains fraudulent claims.
B. It means that hypotheses in the study can be refuted with empirical evidence.
C. It means that a good research hypothesis "proves wrong" a claim of preceding research.
D. It means that the study proved its conclusions.
E. It means that the study failed to prove its conclusions.
B
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Attributing a fixed, exaggerated, distorted, and usually unfavorable or inaccurate conception to a category of people illustrates the process of __________
a. scapegoating b. simulation c. projection d. stereotyping e. rationalization
The poverty index takes into account
A) marital status and number of children under age 18. B) age and the cost of health care. C) family size and the cost of food. D) all of the above factors.
Bob lives in a low-income neighborhood and believes he has no chance of ever getting out, so Bob does not try. This is an example of the: a. self-fulfilling prophecy
c. objectiveness of social reality. b. false definition of reality. d. social construction of reality.
Social scientists debate whether humanness is naturally occurring or socially created. This is called the _____ controversy.
A. inherent–innate B. internal–external C. nature–nurture D. sociology–biology