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Richfield Graduate Institute of Technology (Pty) Ltd-Johannesburg JAVA PROGR 731 TOPIC 3: LITERAURE REVIEW EASY QUESTIONS 1)Which of the following do we recommend as ways to build your general knowledge of a topic area? A

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Richfield Graduate Institute of Technology (Pty) Ltd-Johannesburg

JAVA PROGR 731

TOPIC 3: LITERAURE REVIEW

EASY QUESTIONS

1)Which of the following do we recommend as ways to build your general knowledge of a topic area?

A.            Read a good recent textbook chapter.

B.            Look for the most recent ‘in press’ publication before reading any other material. C.Find and use a reader on the topic in question.

D.Answers A and C

 

2. Which of the following are relevant databases for most psychology dissertation topics?

A.PsycINFO B.Web Of Science C.ACEA

D.Answers A and B

3. Which of the following is the sequence in which you should use a database?

A.Limit dates of papers; print out full text papers; read abstracts; enter search terms B.Print out papers; read abstracts; limit dates; think of search terms

C.Think of search terms; enter terms into database; limit dates of papers; read abstracts; print out full text papers

D.None of the above

4. Which of the following are top tips we offer to help you improve your use of the literature?

A.            Keep a research notebook

B.            Sort your references in a spreadsheet

C.            Apply Fisher’s notation to the arguments you encounter

 

D.            All of the above

5. Which of these describes our advice on using internet search engines?

A.            Engines such as Yahoo and Google are much more efficient and effective than databases such as PsycINFO

 

B.            Web addresses ending in .ac.uk, or .edu are generally bona fide academic sources C.Wiki entries are more up to date and accurate than journal articles

D.None of the above

6. Which of the following are ways in which we suggest you might maximize your marks?

A.            Using the internet to find key researchers

B.            Review notes you made on editorial and overview papers and chapters.

C.            Be as critically evaluative of your own study as you were of other people’s

 

D.            All of the above

 

7. Which of the following steps are likely to help you avoid accidental plagiarism?

A.            Cut and paste accurately from published works.

B.            Make superficial changes to the words used in published papers

 

C.            Make short bullet point notes in your own words D.Answers A and B

 

8. To be original a study must be:

A.            Radically different from previous research

B.            Conducted with a sample that has never been studied before

 

C.            Addressing a gap in the existing research literature D.All of the above

 

9. What do you need to be able to provide in order for your research to pass the ‘so what?’ test?

A.Reasons why the research is important B.Implications of answering the research question C.Proof that no-one has ever conducted a similar study

D.Answers A and B

10._ tend to be generally expressed; a  is a specific prediction about what we will find.

A.            Hypotheses; research question

 

B.            Research questions; hypothesis C.Null hypotheses; research question

D.None of the above

11. Which of these are reasons why it is so important to get your research question right?

A.            The RQ articulates the gap that you have found in the literature

B.            The RQ will guide the design of the study

C.            The RQ will inform the content of your discussion section

 

D.            All of the above

 

12. How do we suggest you deal with competing/alternative theoretical frameworks? A.Choose the one that has been used most often in published papers

B.Ensure that you only refer to papers from your chosen theoretical framework

 

C.Evaluate the quality of evidence for each

D.Choose only frameworks that have been developed in the past ten years

13. ----- are typically peer reviewed, which means that the published work is guaranteed to be flawless;

----- are usually subjected to less stringent evaluation.

A.            Journal articles; book chapters

B.            Book chapters; journal articles

C.Conference papers; journal articles

D.None of the above

14. Which of the following would you do if you applied Fisher’s notation technique to a chapter or paper?

A.            Underline any conclusions

B.            Put curly brackets around any citations to published work

C.            Skim read the text

 

D.            Answers A and C

15. Which of the following do we suggest may be misplaced criticisms of published work?

A.Criticizing work without considering the date when it was published.

B.Criticizing work on the basis that the sample was not truly random

C.Criticizing studies for their small sample size without considering the difficulty of accessing the population.

 

D.All of the above