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1. If you are walking down a city street and you hear hoof beats behind you, you should think they are horses, not zebras. This is an example of which of the following characteristics of the scientific method?
a. falsifiability
b. parsimony
c. replicability
d. precision
2. In the hypothesis, "people who smoke have a higher chance of getting lung cancer" which is the dependent variable.
a. people who smoke
b. higher chance
c. lung cancer
d. Both a and c
3. Which is not a type of validity in social science research?
a. construct validity
b. Internal validity
c. external validity
d. hypothesis validity
4. Which research design requires the researcher to be deeply immersed in a culture for a long period of time?
a. case study
b. ethnography
c. focus group
d. experiment
5. Which of the following was studied by Sapir and Whorf?
a. the interaction of thought and surface structure
b. the influence of language on thought
c. the influence of deep structure on surface structure
d. the influence of culture on language
6. What term refers to the spread of culture from one society to another?
a. acculturation
b. globalization
c. diffusion
d. innovation
7. Shawna is an excellent artist, but as a mother, she feels that she cannot work and devote enough time to her family. She is experiencing which of the following
a. role strain
b. role conflict
c. role ambiguity
d. role exit
8. Based on the characteristics of the different type of social stratification systems, which of the following statement is true about the consistency of status?
a. status consistency is greater in caste than class systems.
b. status consistency is the same in all types of social stratification.
c. status consistency is greater in class than caste systems
d. status consistency is greater the more productive a society is
9. If an advertising agency wanted to hire a psychologist to help them with a marketing campaign, which type of psychologist should they hire?
a. forensic psychologist
b. industrial psychologist
c. social psychologist
d. clinical psychologist
10. Which of the following facial features did psychologists find people were less attracted to?
a. youthful faces
b. symmetrical faces
c. average faces
d. unique faces
11. As a social institution, the economy does which of the following
a. produces goods and services.
b. guides the consumption of goods and services
c. distributes goods and services.
d. All of the above
12. Which of the following best describes a totalitarian government?
a. mixes politics with religion
b. concentrates power and closely regulates people's lives
c. is completely democratic
d. is government without any bureaucracy
13. Which of the following is true about non-democratic forms of governance?
a. Oligarchies are ruled by a person who inherits the throne by birth.
b. the Islamic State is an example of a meritocracy
c. Aristocracies are ruled by a few elite citizens.
d. Technocracies are ruled by religious doctrine and divine officials.
14. Which of the following is a critique of direct democracy??
a. Direct democracy cannot account for special elections or plebiscities.
b. Direct democracy is dominated by the will of the majority.
c. Direct democracy leads to authoritarian institutions and policies.
d. Direct democracy places excessive focus on the individual.
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