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Question 1: When we want to understand the direct relationship between two or more things, we are using which type of research?

Question 2: When we prematurely jump to conclusions, we are using ______.

Question 3: Analysis of data collected by someone other than the researcher is known as ______.

Question 4: When we conclude what we have observed or what we know to be true for some cases is true for all cases, we have committed this error in reasoning.

Question 5: A social scientist who conducts research on youth violence after first volunteering in an organization dealing with at-risk youth may be said to have ______ motivations.

Question 6: When we want to understand the direct relationship between two or more things, we are using which type of research?

Question 7: Research in which social events of only one time period in the past are studied is known as ______.

Question 8: Research with a focus on women's lives that often includes an orientation to personal experience, subjective orientations, the researcher's standpoint, and emotions is ______.

Question 9: Participant observation, intensive interviewing, and focus groups that are designed to capture social life as participants experience it are ______.

Question 10: The belief that there is an empirical reality but that our understanding of it is limited by its complexity and by the biases and other limitations of researchers is known as ______.

Question 11: The everyday error that involves the reluctance to change ideas even in light of new information is called ______.

Question 12: Researchers with a belief that an objective reality exists apart from the perceptions of those who observe it, are conducting research with this philosophy.

Question 13: Surveys and experiments that record variation in social life in terms of categories that vary in amount are likely to employ which research method?

Question 14: If a social service agency seeks better assessment of youth violence so they can identify needs and allocate responsibility among agencies that can meet those needs, we would say that they have ______ motivations to do research.

Question 15: Needs Grading

Explain the differences between descriptive, exploratory, explanatory, and evaluation research. Provide an example of each.