Chapter 5: Research Methods

Self-Made Quiz 5

A. Identification

Question 1: It is defined as a way of measuring something and gaining information?

Answer: Research

Question 2: What are the terms used to refer to the results of research?

Answer: Findings or Outcomes

Question 3: What is this action that was significantly curtailed after a 1964 US General

Surgeon’s report?

Answer: Smoking Advertisement

Question 4: What is this type of method for statistically summarizing the findings of multiple

studies to quantify an average effect and identify possible predictors of variability of

outcomes?

Answer: Meta-analysis

Question 5: What do the community psychologists consider in ecological perspective?

Answer: Content & Environment

Question 6: What is this term that informs us as to whether our efforts actually adhere to

these ethical standards, and an ineffective prevention program that consumes resources may

be considered unethical?

Answer: Research Evidence

Question 7: It is defined as the deliberate sharing of research findings to groups and

communities that would benefit from said findings?

Answer: Dissemination
B. Enumeration

Question 8: Enumerate the three major ethical principles.

Answer: Respect for Persons, Beneficence, and Justice

Question 9: Enumerate the characteristics of best and useful evidence?

Answer: Relevant, credible, believable, and trustworthy

Question 10: Enumerate the research methods discussed.

Answer: Qualitative Research Methods, Quantitative Research Methods, Mixed

Methods Research, Meta-analysis

Question 11: Enumerate some of the major design elements.

Answer: Unit of Analysis, Population of Interest, Sample Recruitment, Data

Collection, Time, Design, Control, Power, Measurement and Data Structure

C. True or False

Question 12: True or False. Community-Based Participatory Research occurs when all

partners are involved equally in the research process.

Answer: True

Question 13: True or False. Findings are used to substantiate claims or ideas or interventions

with evidence.

Answer: True

Question 14: True or False. Qualitative Research Methods involves quantifying the research

problem by collecting and analyzing numerical data.

Answer: False

Question 15: True or False. Traditional psychologists believe that if there is a measurable

success then an intervention is a failure.

 Answer: False

Reference:

Jason, Leonard A.; Glantsman, Olya; O’Brien, Jack F.; and Ramian, Kaitlyn N., “Introduction to

Community Psychology: Becoming an Agent of Change” (2019). College of Science and

Health Full Text Publications.