Wharton County Junior College SOCI MISC CHAPTER 2 1)What is a pilot study? When Elton Mayo did his now-classic experiment on worker productivity, he found that he could increase productivity by changing variables in a work environment, but also that changing variables back increased productivity

2. When Elton Mayo did his now-classic experiment on worker productivity, he found that he could increase productivity by changing variables in a work environment, but also that changing variables back increased productivity. What did he conclude was the true cause of the increase in productivity?

3. A social research methods class wants to study smoking. First the professor asks how many people in the class are smokers. Two people say yes. Then she asks how many people have smoked a cigarette in the last week, and ten people say yes. From this the class decides that, for the purposes of its survey, a smoker will be anyone who has had a cigarette in the last week and currently owns a pack of cigarettes. This is an:

3. Which of the following steps might help a researcher to avoid problems associated with reactivity?

5. A close-ended question is one that:
6. Why is the use of existing data, especially in comparative and historical research, especially helpful to students?
7. Which of the following parts of a research project is always free of bias?
8. Which of the following is true about a sample?
9. A sociologist uses a survey to study the attitudes of adults in the United States concerning premarital sex among teenagers. In this study, the target population consists of_____________, and the group who is asked the survey questions is called the
10. What is the scientific method or approach?
11. A sociologist performs an experiment designed to investigare the effect of marriage conseling on divorce. She divides research participants into two similar groups of troubled couples, provides one group with counseling, and observes whether, over time, the two groups eventually divorce at different rates. What is the independent variable in the experiment?