The research strategy best suited for testing cause-and-effect hypotheses is:
a. panel research.
b. cross-sectional survey research.
c. participant observation.
d. controlled experiments.
Question 2The vast majority of those infected with HIV are:
a. young adults who do not know they are infected.
b. young adults who know they are infected.
c. an unspecified age group who use drugs.
d. an unspecified age group who have received blood transfusions.
e. older adults drug users.
Question 3Suha has some doubt about whether a theory she has been assigned to read is really accurate, so she decides to collect some data to test it. The process she is using is called:
a. experimentation.
b. deduction.
c. induction.
d. participant observation.
Question 4The HIV virus:
a. incapacitates the immune system.
b. infects two types of white blood cells.
c. damages the central nervous system.
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
Question 5The research process that starts with data and builds into theories is called:
a. deduction.
b. survey research.
c. correlation.
d. induction.
Question 6The virus that causes AIDS is known as:
a. hepatitis C.
b. human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).
c. AIDS-generating virus (AGV).
d. influenza-B2
e. automatic infectious disease (AIDS).
Question 7All of the following are drawbacks of experiments EXCEPT:
a. they may be unethical.
b. subjects often behave differently in an experiment.
c. since they occur in unnatural environments, it is difficult to generalize from them.
d. they are unable to explore cause and effect.
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