41. What should a market researcher do once he or she has defined the problem and the research objectives?
A. Collect the information
B. Budget for information collection
C. Develop the research plan
D. Sample the population
Answer
C. Develop the research plan
42. Business research is a systematic inquiry that provides information to guide business decisions. This includes the following except ___.
A. Reporting
B. Descriptive
C. Explanatory
D. Predictive studies
Answer
D. Predictive studies
43. Which of the following should not be a consideration in writinga proposal?
A. Understanding the purpose behind the request for proposal
B. Understanding the problem situation
C. The appearance/form of the proposal
D. Responding to every element exactly as specified by theclient
Answer
C. The appearance/form of the proposal
44. The step-by-step account of what the researcher and participants did during the research study is provided in ___. .
A. Introduction
B. Abstract
C. Procedure
D. Design
Answer
C. Procedure
45. Which of the following is an example of deception in business research?
A. The obtaining of company material without permission
B. The researcher representing their research as being about a different topic
C. The researcher wearing a disguise during an observation
D. The researcher failing to ask permission to interview someone
Answer
B. The researcher representing their research as being about a different topic
46. Which one of the following is not a characteristic of scientific method?
A. Deterministic
B. Rationalism
C. Empirical
D. Abstraction
Answer
D. Abstraction
47. A research problem is feasible only when
A. It is researchable
B. It is new and adds something to knowledge
C. It has utility and relevance
D. All of these
Answer
D. All of these
48. Hypothesis cannot be stated in ___. .
A. Null and question form terms
B. Declarative term
C. General terms
D. Directional terms
Answer
C. General terms
49. The validity and reliability of a research will be at stakewhen ___
A. The author who is the source of information is biased,incompetent or dishonest
B. The incident was reported after a long period of time from that of its occurrence
C. The researcher himself is not competent enough to draw logical conclusions
D. All of the above
Answer
D. All of the above
50. After a researcher has stated the specific problem to be studied in an experiment, he must then develop a ___
A. Theory
B. Conclusion
C. Hypothesis
D. Summary of the data
Answer
C. Hypothesis
51. Research hypotheses are ___
A. Formulated prior from review of the literature
B. Statements of predicted relationships between variables
C. Stated such that they can be confirmed or refuted
D. Both b and c
Answer
D. Both b and c
52. Hypotheses in qualitative research studies usually ___
A. Are very specific and stated prior to beginning the study
B. Are often generated as the data are collected, interpreted, and analyzed
C. Are never used
D. Are always stated after the research study has been completed
Answer
B. Are often generated as the data are collected, interpreted, and analyzed
53. Qualitative research is often exploratory and has all of the following characteristics except- ___
A. it is typically used when a great deal is already known about the topic of interest.
B. it relies on the collection of non numerical data such as words and pictures
C. it is used to generate hypotheses and develop theory about phenomena in the world
D. it uses the inductive scientific method
Answer
A. it is typically used when a great deal is already known about the topic of interest.
54. The opposite of the variables is
A. A constant
B. An extraneous variable
C. A dependent variable
D. A data set
Answer
A. A constant
55. A variable that is presumed to cause a change in another variable is called as ___
A. Categorical variable
B. Dependent variable
C. Independent variable
D. Intervening variable
Answer
C. Independent variable
56. The quantitative research is best described by ___
A. the collection of non numerical data
B. an attempt to confirms the researcher’s hypotheses
C. research that is exploratory
D. research that attempts to generate a new theory
Answer
B. an attempt to confirms the researcher’s hypotheses
57. ___ allow a researcher to examine the degree and directionof the relationship betweentwo characteristics or variables.
A. Correlational designs
B. Quasi-experimental designs
C. Confounding variables
D. Experimental designs
Answer
A. Correlational designs
58. A dependent variable refers to ___.
A. The experimental condition
B. The variable which shows us the effect of the manipulation.
C. The variable being manipulated or varied in some way by the researcher
D. A variable with a single value which remains constant in a particular context
Answer
B. The variable which shows us the effect of the manipulation.
59. Variables are ___-
A. the main focus of research in science.
B. something that can vary in terms of precision
C. something that we can measure
D. all of the above
Answer
D. all of the above
60. The sort of variable manipulated by the researcher is – ___. .
A. Dependent.
B. Co-dependent
C. Independent
D. All variables are manipulated by the researcher
Answer
C. Independent
61. The null and alternative hypotheses divide all possibilities into
A. two sets that overlap
B. two non-overlapping sets
C. two sets that may or may not overlap
D. as many sets as necessary to cover all possibilities
Answer
B. two non-overlapping sets
62. ___. .is true of the null and alternative hypotheses.
A. Exactly one hypothesis must be true
B. both hypotheses must be true
C. It is possible for both hypotheses to be true
D. It is possible for neither hypothesis to be true
Answer
A. Exactly one hypothesis must be true
63. The form of the alternative hypothesis can be:
A. one-tailed
B. two-tailed
C. neither one nor two-tailed
D. one or two-tailed
Answer
D. one or two-tailed
64. The alternative hypothesis is also known as the:
A. elective hypothesis
B. optional hypothesis
C. research hypothesis
D. null hypothesis
Answer
C. research hypothesis
65. A Type II error is also known as a ___
A. False positive
B. False negative
C. Double negative
D. Positive negative
Answer
B. False negative
66. A Type I error is also known as a ___
A. False positive
B. False negative
C. Double negative
D. Positive negative
Answer
A. False positive
67. ___ is the failure to reject a false null hypothesis.
A. Type I error
B. Type II error
C. Type A error
D. Type B error
Answer
B. Type II error
68. Which of the following statements is/are true according to the logic of hypothesis testing?
A. When the null hypothesis is true, it should be rejected
B. When the null hypothesis is true, it should not be rejected
C. When the null hypothesis is false, it should be rejected
D. Both b and c are true
Answer
D. Both b and c are true
69. A literature review requires
A. Planning
B. Good & clear writing
C. Lot of rewriting
D. All of the above
Answer
D. All of the above
70. Conducting surveys is the most common method of generating ___. .
A. Primary data
B. Secondary data
C. Qualitative data
D. None of the above
Answer
A. Primary data
71. A list of questions which is handed over to the respondent, who reads the questions andrecords the answers himself is known as the ___
A. Interview schedule
B. Questionnaire
C. Interview guided.
D. All of the given options
Answer
B. Questionnaire
72. Exploratory research addresses one of the following types of question.
A. If
B. How
C. Why
D. What
Answer
D. What
73. Hypothesis test may also be called as:
A. Informal test
B. Significance test
C. Moderating test
D. T-test
Answer
B. Significance test
74. The interview in which questions are already prepared is called
A. Telephonic interview
B. Personal interview
C. Unstructured interview
D. Structured interview
Answer
D. Structured interview
75. The group that does not receive the experimental treatment condition is the ___
A. Experimental group
B. Control group
C. Treatment group
D. Independent group
Answer
B. Control group
76. There is a number of ways in which confounding extraneous variables can be controlled. Which control technique is considered to be the best?
A. Random assignment
B. Matching
C. Counterbalancing
D. None of the above
Answer
A. Random assignment
77. A cell is a combination of two or more ___ in a factorial design.
A. Research designs
B. Research measurements
C. Dependent variables
D. Independent variables
Answer
D. Independent variables
78. A factorial design is one in which ___
A. Only one independent variable is studied to determine its effect on the dependent variable
B. Only two independent variables are simultaneously studied to determine their independent and interactive effects on the dependent variable
C. Two or more independent variables are simultaneously studied to determine their independent and interactive effects on the dependent variable
D. Two dependent variables are studied to determine their interactive effects
Answer
C. Two or more independent variables are simultaneously studied to determine their independent and interactive effects on the dependent variable
79. A researcher is interested in the effects of a preschool program on later school performance. Because she is concerned that socio-economic-status (SES) is a potential extraneous variable in her study, she picks^&tyldren to study who are only from low SES homes. The control technique she used in this study was- ___
A. Matching
B. Random assignment
C. Holding the extraneous variable constant
D. Statistically controlling the extraneous variable
Answer
C. Holding the extraneous variable constant
80. The directors of a graduate program in educational research wish to see what types of jobs their graduates take after they finish their program. They randomly sample students from the program and have them fill out questionnaires with items asking about the types of jobs they have had. They also are asked to describe the roles they play in their current positions. This project is best described as having what kind of objective—-
A. Descriptive
B. Predictive
C. Explanatory
D. None of the above
Answer
A. Descriptive
