1.The topic of surrogate mothers interested Professor Snyder….
QuestionAnswered step-by-step1.The topic of surrogate mothers interested Professor Snyder….1.The topic of surrogate mothers interested Professor Snyder. Snyder read the available materials on the topic and wanted to develop an age, education, and income profile of women who serve as surrogate mothers in Canada. To develop this profile, Snyder should undertake a(n) a) trend studyb) cohort studyc) explanatory studyd) panel studye) descriptive study2.Lucy did an experiment on what generates hostility and was particularly concerned that her subjects base their voluntary participation on a full understanding of the possible risks involved. This is an example of:a) deception.b) a code of ethics.c) informed consent.d) an Institutional Review Board.4.Which of the following hypotheses best fits the criteria of causality? a) gender tends to influence jury verdictb) males have higher suicide rates than females.c) as education increases, income tends to increased) as income increases, age tends to increasee) as education increases, income tends to increase even after controlling for gender and race6.Ethical review is required of all research projects involving human subjects, except when being carried out below the graduate level. a) True b) False8.Chantal is a student at Memorial University of Newfoundland and wishes to do a study on how students’ living arrangements affect their academic engagement. Who must review her research before it can be done? a) the provincial governmentb) the federal governmentc) the Research Ethics Boardsd) the American Sociological Association9.Concerns with ethical standards human research have been present in North America since the beginning of the 20th century. Question 9 options: a) True b) False10.When a researcher can identify a subject’s responses but promises not to do so publicly, the subject is guaranteed a) confidentialityb) full disclosurec) anonymityd) debriefing of the subject’s identity11.A subject is guaranteed anonymity when a) a researcher can identify a given person’s responses but promises not to do so publiclyb) results from face-to-face interviews are aggregated into statistical descriptionsc) neither the researcher nor the public can identify a response given by a subjectd) a researcher can identify a response given by a subject, but neither those assisting the researcher in her work nor those reading the research can make such an identificatione) pseudonyms are used instead of the subject’s real name12.Professional associations have developed codes of ethics because:a) Institutional Review Boards have required them to do so.b) it helps to get government grants.c) students have complained that ethical guidelines have been unclear.d) ethical issues are important and ambiguous.Question 13 Professor Stone designs a study to examine the effect of a teenage pregnancy on young women’s career choices. Stone wants to interview a sample of teenage women during their pregnancy, after the baby’s birth, and once a year after that for a ten year period. Stone is using a a) cohort studyb) cross sectional designc) panel studyd) trend studyQuestion 14 (1 point) Deceiving people can be ethical or unethical depending on the circumstance. a) True b) FalseQuestion 15 (1 point) Professor King examined all the reasons given by 100 couples for their marriages. In the final research report, King listed all the reasons given by the 200 people for their marriages. Professor King is a) using a nomothetic explanation for marriageb) seeking a probabilistic explanation for marriagec) committing the error of suppressed evidenced) using an idiographic explanation for marriage 16.If we can establish that variable X comes before variable Q in time, then we can saya) variable X is a cause of variable Qb) variable Q is not a cause of variable Xc) variable Q may cause variable Xd) variable X is not a cause of variable Qe) variable Q is a cause of variable XQuestion 17 (1 point) a) an isolation of the three most important reasons as to why men were selected to all the leadership positions at a former women’s college that went co-edb) an examination of all the considerations that resulted in 85% of the senior class members being hired for the jobs of their choicec) an attempt to understand all the reasons concerning why five former presidents of the United States ran for officed) listing the reasons given by first-year students for selecting the college they currently attendQuestion 18 (1 point)The main ethical issue in Stanley Milgram’s study on obedience (electric shocks) was: a) voluntary participation.b) inaccurate reporting of results.c) no harm to participants.d) confidentiality.Question 19 (1 point) In a study where a researcher examined newspaper editorials from major Canadian cities that dealt with the topic of grade inflation, the unit of analysis was a) the newspaper editorialsb) the newspapersc) studentsd) the major citiese) grade inflationQuestion 20 (1 point) Which of the following would REBs be the least concerned about? a) the legal consequences that a study on assisted suicide may have on research subjectsb) the impact that reliving traumatizing events may have when interviewing war veteransc) the amount of funding that a graduate student has obtained to carry out research on human subjects in Perud) a psychological study of role playing amongst childrene) the use of deception in gaining access to the ‘squeegee’ community in downtown Toronto Social ScienceSociologySOCIOLOGY SOC2292Share Question


