Review for Test #1

1. Know the two issues making science unique (operational definitions and replication).

2. Be able to define each of them

3. Understand various vocabulary such as epistomology, positivism, phenomenology

4. Understand the assumptions that science makes.

5. Understand the source of motivations in science (personal, intellectual, institutional)

6. Know words like RFP, grant and contract.

7. Be able to list the steps in science.

8. Be able to contrast an independent/dependent variable and the various levels of measurement.

9. Know the various information sources and how to access them.

10. Know the difference between an index and scale.

11. Be able to distinguish between a Likert, Gutman and Semantic Differential scale

12. Understand the difference between reliability and validity

13. Develop a position on the ethics of social science research.