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

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

Belief

Philosophy

Theory

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

Genographic

Nomothetic

Genographic

Idiographic

Which of the following is a good research question?

1. To produce a report on student job searching behaviors

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

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

HEADS UP CHALLENGE!

Survey Research

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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

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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:

Macrotheory

Deductive Theory

Inductive 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?

Cross-Sectional Study

Longitudinal Study

Trend 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?

Drag and Sort Correctly:

A. Answer the question: why?

Descriptive

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

Exploratory

Explanatory

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

D. New interest or subject of study is new

Correlation

E. Do two phenomena influence each other? How?

Prediction

continuE

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Mission 2

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Name 5 Ethical Issues in Social Research

No Harm to Participants

Anonymity and Confidentiality

Voluntary Participants

Analysis and Reporting

Deception

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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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What are the overall purposes of research?

Descriptive

Exploratory

Explanatory

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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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Drag and Sort Correctly:

A. Participant observer, case study, action research

Operationalization

B. Chi-Square Test

Units of Analysis

Qualitative Methods

C. Human beings, social artifacts, organizations

D. Analyzing existing data, questionnaires

Inferential Statistics

E. Describes how variables will be measured

Quantitative Methods

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Mission 3

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A qualitative research problem statment:

Specifies research methods utilized

Conveys a sense of emerging design

Specifies a research hypothesis

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

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

Ratio

B. Gender / Chi-Square Test

Interval

Ordinal

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

D. Credit Scores / T-test

Nominal

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Name 5 Social Science Paradigms

Macrotheory

Microtheory

Early Positivism

Symbolic Interactionism

Conflict Paradigm

Social Darwinism

Feminist Paradigms

Structural Functionalism

Ethnomethodology

Rational Objectivity Reconsidered

Critical Race Theory

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Operationalization

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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

216

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Mission 4

Final Challenge!

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

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Final Challenge!

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

Research Question

Variables

Research Question

Research Question

Conceptualization

Analysis

Ethical Considerations

Methods

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