Cigarette smoking has been shown to be related to lung disease. This proposition includes:
a. a statement of bias against smoking.
b. a statement of association.
c. no independent variable.
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
Question 2In measuring whether people cooperated with Snackbot's requests to do neck stretches, Lee noticed a customer doing neck stretches in a way that mocked Snackbot. Lee was unsure whether such behavior should count as co- operation. Lee asked other researchers helping her and one said it should count and the other said it should not. This situation brings up issues of
a. generalizability.
b. prediction.
c. reliability.
d. validity.
Question 3Which of the following is a statement of causality?
a. Rural areas have fewer services than urban areas.
b. This sociology course is difficult.
c. Poverty produces low self-esteem.
d. Mean income in New York is higher than mean income in Florida.
e. On average, more persons are murdered in Texas than Arizona.
Question 4After reading Lee's research on human-robot interaction, Gerry concluded that if employers make robots likeable and even preferable to humans, this might distract employee's attention away from the job-killing implications. The view reflects the perspective.
a. functionalist
b. conflict
c. symbolic interaction
d. social action
Question 5When two variables are related but one does not cause the other, researchers term the situation:
a. a validity.
b. an association.
c. a bias.
d. a reliability.
e. an establishment.
Question 6Lee identified as the most important factor in explaining successful robot- human interaction.
a. people's ability to make personalized small talk with the robot
b. the robot's physical appearance
c. the robot's ability to engage in personalized small talk with people
d. the age of those interacting with robots
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