490 midterm

All the following are concepts to determine causality except

• a.      Epidemiology of association

• a.      Strength of association

• a.      Consistency of the association

• a.      Biological gradient

Method of tenacity is accepted to be true because it always has been

• True

• False

method of authority is a hunch

• true

• false

method of intuition is an expert in the field

• true

• false

The rational method example is

• People like chocalate so only those people like it.

• •All 3-year-old children are afraid of the dark.

  •Amy is a 3-year-old girl.

  •Therefore, Amy is afraid of the dark

• It must be correlated through a linear regression

• Angie is a child and she likes candy, so all adults like candy.

Answering a question by direct observation or personal experience

• randomized control trial

• observational study

• Empirical method

• positivism

The Steps of the Scientific Method

• •Observe behavior or other phenomena

• •Form a tentative answer or explanation (a hypothesis).

• •Use your hypothesis to generate a testable prediction

• All are true

•A general statement is the basis for reaching a conclusion about specific examples.

• Induction

• deduction

•A small set of specific observations is the basis for forming a general statement about a larger set of possible observations.

• deduction

• induction

Reorder the following steps in the Research Process

• •Determine how you will define and measure your variables

• •Identify the participants or subjects for the study, decide how they will be selected, and plan for their ethical treatment.

• •Form a hypothesis

• •Select a research strategy

• •Find a research idea: select a topic and search the literature to find an unanswered question