Advanced Research Mystery Breakout Challenge

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Complete all of the missions before the time runs out in order to escape the room. Good luck!

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Mission 1

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Answer the following questions to find out the address of the first scenario

Philosophy

Belief

Theory

Which of the following is one of the foundations of Social Science?

Nomothetic

Genographic

Idiographic

In order to explain some phenomena, we can use very specific causes known as what type of explanation?

Genographic

2. To identify the relationship between self-efficacy and student job seearching behaviors

1. To produce a report on student job searching behaviors

3. Do students with high levels of self-efficacy demonstrate more active job searching behaviors

Which of the following is a good research question?

Rightanswer

Survey Research

A museum solicited the help of a researcher in order to determine the most popular exhibits. The researcher asked visitors to rate how much they liked each exhibit on a daily basis for six weeks, and analyzed the data to look for age and sex difference among preferences of exhibits. This was an example of:

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Deductive Theory

Macrotheory

Inductive Theory

A researcher observes the phenomena of bright lights flashing in the sky before an earthquake. This observation was used to develop a general theory as to why this phenomena occurs. This method is known as:

Cross-Sectional Study

Trend Study

Longitudinal Study

A researcher is examining the prevalence and characteristics of child labor in Pakistan and intends to collect data from the same sample during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Which study is most appropriate for their research design?

A researcher is examining the prevalence and characteristics of child labor in Pakistan and intends to collect data from the same sample during childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Which study is most appropriate for their research design?

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A. Answer the question: why?

B. Observe a phenomena and write what you consider typical or accidental

C. Based upon correlations, how probable are similar future outcomes?

D. New interest or subject of study is new

E. Do two phenomena influence each other? How?

Descriptive

Exploratory

Explanatory

Correlation

Prediction

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Mission 2

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Name 5 Ethical Issues in Social Research

Voluntary Participants

No Harm to Participants

Anonymity and Confidentiality

Deception

Analysis and Reporting

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A researcher discovered a statistically significant relationship between divorce rates and margarine consumption (r=.992) and concluded higher consumption directly effects marital satisfaction. What are the issue(s), if any, with their findings?

Correlation does not equal causation.

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Descriptive

Explanatory

What are the overall purposes of research?

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Exploratory

A theory is a collection of data-based hypotheses

What is the difference between a hypothesis and a theory?

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A. Participant observer, case study, action research

B. Chi-Square Test

C. Human beings, social artifacts, organizations

D. Analyzing existing data, questionnaires

E. Describes how variables will be measured

Operationalization

Units of Analysis

Qualitative Methods

Inferential Statistics

Quantitative Methods

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Specifies research methods utilized

Conveys a sense of emerging design

A qualitative research problem statment:

Specifies a research hypothesis

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A. Income level (low, middle, high) / Spearman's Rank-Order Correlation

B. Gender / Chi-Square Test

C. Height or weight / All statistical tests can be performed

D. Credit Scores / T-test

Ratio

Interval

Ordinal

Nominal

Drag and Sort The Example and Statistical Test That May Be Used For Each Scale of Measurement:

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Name 5 Social Science Paradigms

Social Darwinism

Microtheory

Symbolic Interactionism

Ethnomethodology

Conflict Paradigm

Feminist Paradigms

Critical Race Theory

Structural Functionalism

Rational Objectivity Reconsidered

Early Positivism

Macrotheory

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A researcher is interested in the impact of stereotypes on performance. In one group, women read an article citing the structure of men's brains is associated with better skills in math. The second group of women read an article citing no biological differences between the sexes that would make one gender better than the other at math. All women then took a challenging math test. What was the dependent variable in the study?

Women's scores on the math test

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Remember the code

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Watch the video and design a research project based on Dwight's topic of interest.

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Variables

Research Question

Conceptualization

Dwight Schrute's Topic of Interest: "Exposing yourself to germs is the best way to make yourself stronger."

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Methods

Ethical Considerations

Research Question

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Analysis

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