FCS 380 Study Guide Exam 1

Science and Why It’s Needed

Epistemology

Methodology

Intuition

Common Sense

Authority

Tradition

Everyday Observations

Casual and Semiconscious

Overgeneralize

Illogical Reasoning

Theory

Data Collection

Data Analysis

Variables

Attributes

Patterns

Independent Variables

Dependent Variables

Qualitative

Quantitative

Pure Research

Applied Research

Anatomy of a Research Article

Apa Style

Quoting

Summarizing

Paraphrasing

Borrowing Ideas

Borrowing Facts

Plagiarism

Ethics

Tuskegee Syphilis Study

Four Ethical Issues That Protect Human Subjects

Do No Harm

Anonymity and Confidentiality

Deception

Voluntary Participation and Informed Consent

Code of Ethics for this Profession

Institutional Review Board

Three Primary Areas of Possible Abuse in Social Research

Covert Research

Rosenhan’s Pseudo-schizophrenics Study

Coercion

Stanley Milgram’s Shocking Experiment

Invasion of Privacy

The Tearoom Trade