Quiz 1 Flashcards
What are the sources of knowledge?
Common sense, intuition, authority, self-discovery, science
Tuskegee Syphilis Clinical Study
Used deception, they did not care about the welfare of participants
What is social science research?
public, objective, empirical, systematic, cumulative, predictive, generalizable, falsifiable
Medical experiments in Guatemala
Infected nearly 700 Guatemalans with syphilis, trying to test the use of pennicilin
Millgram Study
testing people’s compliance with authority, harmful because they let people think that they hurt or killed someone
Concealment
withholding certain info from the subjects in an experiment
Conceptual definiton
process by which concepts are defined, specifies the meaning of the concept and variable
Operational definition
Specifies how the concept will be measured, process of attaching concrete measurement to conceptual definition
Theory
Systematic explanation for observations
Concept
Abstract elements representing classes of phenomena within the field of study
Variable
A set of attributes
Explication
the process of attaching both meaning and measurement to an abstraction
Criteria for causality
correlation, time order, non spurious
Spurious relationships
Improper conclusions based on correlations caused by unseen factors
Unit of analysis
the what or whom being studied
