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

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

Theory

Belief

Philosophy

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

Genographic

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

Idiographic

Genographic

Nomothetic

Which of the following is a good research question?

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

1. To produce a report on student job searching behaviors

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

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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:

Survey Research

Rightanswer

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:

Inductive Theory

Macrotheory

Deductive Theory

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?

Longitudinal Study

Trend Study

Cross-Sectional Study

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Prediction

Correlation

Explanatory

Exploratory

Descriptive

E. Do two phenomena influence each other? How?

D. New interest or subject of study is new

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

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

A. Answer the question: why?

SOLUTION

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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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Mission 2

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Analysis and Reporting

Deception

Anonymity and Confidentiality

No Harm to Participants

Voluntary Participants

Name 5 Ethical Issues in Social Research

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Correlation does not equal causation.

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?

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What are the overall purposes of research?

Explanatory

Descriptive

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What is the difference between a hypothesis and a theory?

A theory is a collection of data-based hypotheses

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Quantitative Methods

Inferential Statistics

Qualitative Methods

Units of Analysis

Operationalization

E. Describes how variables will be measured

D. Analyzing existing data, questionnaires

C. Human beings, social artifacts, organizations

B. Chi-Square Test

A. Participant observer, case study, action research

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Mission 3

Specifies a research hypothesis

A qualitative research problem statment:

Conveys a sense of emerging design

Specifies research methods utilized

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

Nominal

Ordinal

Interval

Ratio

D. Credit Scores / T-test

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

B. Gender / Chi-Square Test

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

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Macrotheory

Early Positivism

Rational Objectivity Reconsidered

Structural Functionalism

Critical Race Theory

Feminist Paradigms

Conflict Paradigm

Ethnomethodology

Symbolic Interactionism

Microtheory

Social Darwinism

Name 5 Social Science Paradigms

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Operationalization

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HEADS UP CHALLENGE!

Women's scores on the math test

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?

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Mission 4

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Final Challenge!

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

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Analysis

Research Question

Research Question

Ethical Considerations

Methods

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Final Challenge!

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

Conceptualization

Research Question

Variables

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