1st Quarter Exam Practical Research 2 b) content analysis a) How long do people maintain budgets?

c) survey b) What type of budget works for everyone?

1. A systematic investigation which involves collecting, analyzing, d) experiment c) What is the best age to start a budget?
and interpreting information in a sequential manner in order to d) How do budgets help people meet financial goals?
increase our understanding of the phenomenon of interest is also 7. Quantitative research
known as a) Is an open approach to social phenomena 14. Which source would most likely provide bias-free information on
a) Statistics b) Employs predetermined instruments to measure and observe Germany’s role in World War II?
b) Analysis c) Reports data in narrative form a) a World War II veteran
c) Research d) Is only experimental in nature b) a student Web site on the war
d) Methodology c) a German propaganda film
8. A researcher wants to test a specific hypothesis and applies d) a statistical report on the war
2. When a researcher wants to study a counseling intervention with random assignment for the study. Which quantitative research
individuals who live at a homeless shelter versus individuals who live method should be used for this study? 15. It is a way of obtaining knowledge about your surroundings.
at a domestic violence shelter, the best research design would be a) experimental a) imagination
a) Experimental design b) correlational b) learning
b) Predictive design c) causal-comparitive c) science
c) Case study d) grounded theory d) thinking
d) Quasi-experimental design
9. It is done to check the correctness and verify the findings of the 16. The use of new technology is considered in
3. When a researcher is interested in linking or making an study. doing a research nowadays. Which research
association between two or more phenomena, the design that should a) Large Sample Sizes characteristics is being shown?
be used is b) Numerical Data accuracy
a) Descriptive c) Replication clarity
b) Exploratory d) Objective
objectiveness
c) Correlational
d) Grounded theory 10. timeliness
When you study the group culture, you would employ an approach
4. Researchers wishing to study categorical variables would use called 17. Which approach to research uses qualitative
which research design? a) grounded theory data, that deals on how people behave in the
a) Narrative b) case study surroundings?
b) Phenomenological c) ethnography naturalistic
c) Qualitative positive
d) Quantitative 11. The following are the characteristics of qualitative research scientific
except triangulation
a) emergent
5. What research method is used by researchers who study single b) focus on outcome
individuals in depth, in order to uncover general principles of c) exploratory
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thinking and behavior? d) focus on process Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of
a) experimentation qualitative research?
b) correlational study 12. A questionnaire can be used in interpretivist research active, powerful and forceful
c) naturalistic observation a) Yes, in all forms contextualization
d) case study b) Yes, if it is in unstructured form diversified data in real-life situation
c) Yes, if it restricts the freedom to respond internal analysis
6. What research strategy is used by a company who sends a d) Never
satisfaction questionnaire to its current customers at the end of the
year. 13. Which research question would lead to the most information
a) observation about successful budgets?