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Research Ethics and Research

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1. The principle of respect recognizes the capacity and rights of all


individuals to make their own decisions.

2 points

True

False

2. Consideration of any potential benefits to the communities where the


research will be conducted is not part of the beneficence principle.

2 points

True

False

3. It is impossible to enroll research participants in an equitable manner.

2 points
True

False

4. What ethical principle in doing research that means enrolling research


participants in an equitable manner?

2 points

Your answer

5. The need to provide special protections to vulnerable persons is an


essential element of the principle of respect.

2 points

True

False

6. Protection of the research participant is more important than the pursuit of


new knowledge.

2 points

True

False

7. Social and economic conditions that make persons vulnerable do not


have to be considered by researchers.

2 points

True

False

8. Using research participants for the exclusive benefit of more privileged


groups is not ethically correct.

2 points
True

False

9. In the context of research, ethics refers to the appropriateness of the


researcher's behavior in relation to the rights of the research participants.

2 points

True

False

10. The progress of science justifies any research study.

2 points

True

False

11. Respect for the communities where the research will be conducted is not
currently considered an element of the principle of respect.

2 points

True

False

12. What ethical principle in doing research includes physical and mental
well-being, and social well-being?

2 points

Your answer

13. The informed consent includes the potential harm and benefits that the
research participants may experience in participating the study.

2 points
True

False

14. Informed consent should be designed to empower the potential


participant to make an informed choice to participate or not to participate in
the study.

2 points

True

False

15. The researcher can eliminate data from the participants that are not in
line with what he/she intends to obtain in the study.

2 points

True

False

16. The preparation of the informed consent process starts before the study
is initiated.

2 points

True

False

17. Ethical issues are not a concern as long as those who become
participants of the study are not aware of what the researcher is doing.

2 points

True

False

18. The benefits that might come from the research are not known until the
research is completed.

2 points
True

False

19. What is that unethical act in doing research in which a person is taking
the work of somebody as his own?

2 points

Your answer

20. What is that ethical issue that is sometimes necessary in doing research
that pertains to giving misleading information to the participants in order to
solicit natural responses from them?

2 points

Your answer

21. A qualitative method that was developed by Sociologists: Barney Glaser


and Anselm Strauss

2 points

Case Study

Phenomenology

Grounded Theory

Narrative Research

ethnography

Discourse Analysis

22. Encompasses a wide variety of qualitative approaches to study of how


people make meaning of their life through story

2 points
Case Study

Phenomenology

Grounded Theory

Narrative Research

ethnography

Discourse Analysis

23. Study of talk and text in social practice

2 points

Case Study

Phenomenology

Grounded Theory

Narrative Research

ethnography

Discourse Analysis

24. A detailed study of one or more person, event, organization and others
within a bound system

2 points

Case Study

Phenomenology

Grounded Theory

Narrative Research

ethnography

Discourse Analysis

25. The researcher can go beyond the phenomena and their meanings to
take a global view of the essences discovered

2 points

Case Study by Yin

Case Study By Stake


Grounded Theory

Case Study by Merriam

Descriptive/Transcendental Phenomenology

Interpretive/Hermeneutic Phenomenology

26. A qualitative research design that claims that a researcher could not
remove him/herself from the process of essence-identification, that he/she
existed with the phenomena and the essences

2 points

Case Study by Yin

Case Study By Stake

Grounded Theory

Case Study by Merriam

Descriptive/Transcendental Phenomenology

Interpretive/Hermeneutic Phenomenology

27. The researcher tests about how and why some phenomena are related
as he retrieved his data in one point of time

2 points

Descriptive Cross-Sectional

Explanatory Retrospective

Predictive Longitudinal

Explanatory Longitudinal

Descriptive Retrospective

Predictive Cross-sectional

Explanatory Cross-sectional

28. The researcher employed statistical models to predict one attribute from
another as he gathered the data in one point of time.

2 points

Descriptive Cross-Sectional
Explanatory Retrospective

Predictive Longitudinal

Explanatory Longitudinal

Descriptive Retrospective

Predictive Cross-sectional

Explanatory Cross-sectional

29. The researcher is more interested in the “what” rather than the “why” as
he looks back in time in gathering the data.

2 points

Descriptive Cross-Sectional

Explanatory Retrospective

Predictive Longitudinal

Explanatory Longitudinal

Descriptive Retrospective

Predictive Cross-sectional

Explanatory Cross-sectional

30. The researcher elaborated the reasons about how and why the observed
differences between pre-existing groups came to be as he gathered the data
in multiple occasions.

2 points

Descriptive Cross-Sectional

Explanatory Retrospective

Predictive Longitudinal

Explanatory Longitudinal

Descriptive Retrospective

Predictive Cross-sectional

Explanatory Cross-sectional

31. The researcher gathered the data in multiple occasions but made claims
about what might happen.
2 points

Descriptive Cross-Sectional

Explanatory Retrospective

Predictive Longitudinal

Explanatory Longitudinal

Descriptive Retrospective

Predictive Cross-sectional

Explanatory Cross-sectional

32. The researcher looked back in time in gathering data and he tested
theories about how and why some attributes, behavior, or phenomena are
related.

2 points

Descriptive Cross-Sectional

Explanatory Retrospective

Predictive Longitudinal

Explanatory Longitudinal

Descriptive Retrospective

Predictive Cross-sectional

Explanatory Cross-sectional

33. The researcher describes the characteristics of data and gathers them in
one point of time.

2 points

Descriptive Cross-Sectional

Explanatory Retrospective

Predictive Longitudinal

Explanatory Longitudinal

Descriptive Retrospective

Predictive Cross-sectional

Explanatory Cross-sectional
34. What is the appropriate term for the individuals to whom the data are
gathered?

2 points

Your answer

35. What is the role of Ethics in doing research?

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