Study Online Assignment RM Fill
Study Online Assignment RM Fill in Blank Set for your distance learning online assignment courses.
1. ______ is the systematic approach towards purposeful investigation.
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Ans: research
2. Research is an _____ effort to gain new knowledge.
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Ans: academic activity, a systematized effort
3. The objective of research is to determine the association or independence of an …………………
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Ans: activity
4. To determine the …………………….. of an individual or a group of activities and the frequency of its (or their) occurrence.
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Ans: characteristics
5. …………… variable is that quantity or aspect of nature whose change at different, stages the researcher wants to understand or explain.
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Ans: Dependent
6. Selection of a ……………. is the first task of the research process.
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Ans: research topic
7. Descriptive research is usually a fact finding approach generalizing a ______ study of the present situation.
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Ans: cross-sectional
8. ________ is the application of available scientific methods in social science research which helps to contradict, alter or modify any existing theory or theories and helps to formulate policy.
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Ans: Applied research
9. ______ research is an empirical enquiry for situations that have already occurred.
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Ans: Ex-post-facto research
10. The scientific method is more precise than ________ methods.
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Ans: non-scientific
11. Research methodology is a scientific and ______ way to solve research problems.
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Ans:
12. Research methods are the ________ employed by
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Ans: systematic
13. Researchers in conducting research operations.
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Ans: Research methods are the methods or techniques employed by
14. The objective of research function should be known to ________ agency.
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Ans: outside
15. Outside agency may propose a research proposal without any _______.
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Ans: constraint
16. _____ calls for determining the information needed, developing a plan for gathering it efficiently and presenting the management of the organization.
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Ans: research process
17. To meet the management information needs, the researcher can gather _______ data and _______ data or both.
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Ans: secondary data, primary data
18. ____________a formal statement relating to the research problem and it need to be tested based on the researchers’ findings.
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Ans: Hypothesis
19. _______________ is an abstract form of research which underlines the research procedure followed and is presented before the guide for evaluating its potentiality.
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Ans: Synopsis
20. There is an __________ of the combination of each act with each possible state of nature.
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Ans: outcome (or consequence)
21. _______ problems deal with the selection of a single act from a set of alternative acts.
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Ans: Decision-making
22. The decision-maker can calculate the expected ________ for the course of action.
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Ans: payoff
23. The ____________ is widely used to evaluate the alternative course of action (or act).
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Ans: expected value (or expected monetary value, i.e., EMV)
24. The research question should be a ________ information – gathering question.
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Ans: fact – oriented
25. After the research problem is formulated it should further be broken down in _______question and Measurement question.
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Ans: Investigative
26. ____________ research is conducted mostly in laboratories in the context of basic research.
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Ans: Experimental
27. ____________of marketing phenomenon consists in an incomplete representation of the marketing system or some aspect of this system.
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Ans: Simulation
28. ________ is the study of cause and effect relationships between two or more variables.
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Ans: Causal design
29. There can be ________ types of experimental design based on the use or approximate randomization of subjects into treatment and control groups.
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Ans: nine types
30. _________designs are used when lotteries are expected, eliminate a major impediment to randomization.
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Ans: Lottery
31. _________ used to draw valid conclusions about treatment effect based only on post-test information on two Non-equivalent groups since effects may be due to treatment or to non-equivalencies between the groups.
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Ans: Post-test only Design with Non-equivalent Comparison Groups Design
32. In _______ design, the researcher identifies dependent variables related to the treatment-related variable, but where treatment is predicted to have no effect.
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Ans: Non-equivalent Dependent Variables Pre-test – Post-test Design
33. A census is appropriate if the size of population is _________
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Ans: small
34. ________ frame is the list of elements from which the sample is actually drawn.
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Ans: Sampling frame
35. In a _________ sample, every unit in the population has equal chances for being selected as a sample unit.
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Ans: Probability sampling
36. In the __________ sampling, the units in the population have unequal or negligible, almost no chances for being selected as a sample unit.
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Ans: Non–probability sampling
37. ___________ is also called random sampling without replacement.
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Ans: Varying Probability
38. __________ is a probability sampling procedure in which simple random sub-samples are drawn from within different strata that are, more or less equal on some characteristics.
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Ans: Stratified Random Sampling
39. Deliberate or Purposive Sampling is also known as the _______ .
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Ans: judgment sampling
40. In ________ method the respondents are recruited for individual interviews at fixed locations in shopping malls.
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Ans: non-probability sampling
41. _______ is a method in which the sample is formed on the basis of a series of successive decisions.
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Ans: Sequential Sampling
42. In _________ method, the initial group of respondents are selected randomly.
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Ans: Snowball Sampling
43. ___________of a questionnaire is done to detect any flaws that might be present.
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Ans: Pre-testing
44. A _______ question is also known as a loaded question.
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Ans: leading question
45. _______data are statistics that already exist.
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Ans: Secondary
46. _______ are those that are found within the organisation.
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Ans: Internal Secondary
47. ________ is the data collected by the researcher from outside the company.
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Ans: External Secondary Data
48. In _______ study, the various groups of India’s population and their lifestyles, attitudes of Indian housewives were detailed.
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Ans: Study of Nations Attitude and Awareness Programme (SNAP)
49. ___________ sources consist of market research firms offering syndicated services.
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Ans: Syndicated
50. In _____ method there are consumer panels.
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Ans: Consumer Purchase Data or Panel Type Data
51. The _______ of the person or the organization that collects the information is important.
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Ans: competency
52. The ________ of the information must identify “what exactly was collectedâ€.
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Ans: user
53. _______ scale may tell us “How far the objects are apart with respect to an attribute?â€
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Ans: Interval
54. _________scale is used to assess attitude of the respondents group regarding any issue of public interest.
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Ans: Thurstone
55. ___________ Scaling is used to study consumer attitudes, particularly with respect to perceptions and preferences.
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Ans: Ordinal Scale (Ranking scale)
56. Thurstone Scale is also known as an ______ scale.
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Ans: unidimensional
57. Semantic Differential Scale is very similar to the ________ Scale.
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Ans: Likert
58. The Likert Scale consists of two parts _______ and ________
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Ans: Item and Respondent
59. An ________ questionnaire, which is the basis for forecasting the demand for a product has predictive validity.
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Ans: opinion
60. Those who enjoy high job satisfaction, and have extrovert personalities should exhibit ______ performance.
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Ans: high
61. A ________ is a tentative proposition relating to certain phenomenon, which the researcher wants to verify when required.
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Ans: hypothesis
62. A ______ is a statement about the population, whose credibility or validity the researcher wants to assess based on the sample.
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Ans: null hypothesis
63. A _______ test is one in which the test statistics leading to rejection of null hypothesis falls on both tails of the sampling distribution curve as shown.
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Ans: two-tailed test
64. ________ tells the researcher the number of elements that can be chosen freely.
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Ans: Degree of Freedom
69. ________ is used to analyse those data which cannot be quantified.
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Ans: Observation Method
70. In ______ the respondents do not know that they are being observed.
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Ans: disguised observation
71. _________ is used most often to describe a method of gathering information from samples of individuals.
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Ans: Survey
72. In ________ on, the actual behaviour or phenomenon of interest is observed.
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Ans: direct observation
73. ________ may be defined as a proforma that contains a set of questions which are asked and filled by an interviewer in a face to face situation with another.
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Ans: Schedule
74. The technique of __________can be used for data classified under one-way and also data classified under two-way.
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Ans: analysis of variance
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75. ________ is a statistical technique used to test the equality of three or more sample means.
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Ans: ANOVA
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76. ______ of variance is a technique used to compare means of two or more samples.
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Ans: one-way analysis
77. We divide the higher variance amongst the two variances i.e. SS(B) and SS(W) by the ________.
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Ans: lower variance
78. The ___________ of variance test is an extension of the one-way ANOVA test that examines the influence of different categorical independent variables on one dependent variable.
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Ans: two-way analysis
79. In the two-way ANOVA model, there are ____ factors, each with its own number of levels.
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Ans: two
80. ________ is used to determine the functional relationship between a dependent variable and a host of predictors.
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Ans: Regression analysis
81. ________ analyze some experimental data when there is a metric dependent measure and a set of experimental independent variables which measure even on nominal or ordinal scales.
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Ans: Analysis of Variance
82. The principal advantage of _______ is that it allows us to use more of the available information to estimate the dependent variable.
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Ans: multiple regression
83. The relationship indicated by _____ may not remain the same if the regression equation is extended and applied to values beyond those covered in obtaining it.
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Ans: scatter diagram
84. _______ should include the methodology used by the research firm and all the above contents.
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Ans: Presentation
85. Research proposal is a ________
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Ans: document
86. The _______ report is generally intended for other researcher, or for research managers.
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Ans: technical report
87. The ______ report is intended for a more general audience
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Ans: popular
88. Developing the fresh mind approach will help in avoiding the mindset about a _____
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Ans: situation
89. _______ sentences will help in avoiding grammatical mistakes.
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Ans: Short sentences
90. While observing an _____ or a situation, record the sequence in detail.
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Ans: operation or coincidence
91. ______ can be formal or informal depending upon their nature and the person being interviewed.
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Ans: Interviews
92. The success of such speeches is basically dependent on one’s ______ powers.
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Ans: persuasive/motivating
93. The _____ should know his target audience well in advance to prepare tailor-made presentation.
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Ans: presenter
94. _______ is a channel to communicate the research findings to the readers of the report.
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Ans: Research report
95. ______ reports are produced when the problem is very well defined and if the scope is limited.
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Ans: Short reports
