Research midterm

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Quiz on Research midterm , created by India Curenton on 09/27/2018.
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Questão 1

Questão
What are some sources of research problems?
Responda
  • Nursing practice
  • Researcher and peer interaction
  • Literature review
  • Theory
  • Research priorities
  • Research ideas

Questão 2

Questão
The initial and one of the most significant steps in conducting the research process is?
Responda
  • Defining the research variables
  • Determining the feasibility of the study
  • Identifying the research problem
  • Stating the research purpose

Questão 3

Questão
The feasibility of conducting a study is determined by examining which of the following ?
Responda
  • Availability of subjects
  • Previous studies
  • Researchers credibility
  • Significance of research problem

Questão 4

Questão
What is a nondirectional hypothesis?
Responda
  • Relationship that exist between variable, but hypothesis predicts nature of relationship
  • Relationship exists between variables, but hypothesis does not predict nature of relationship
  • Different variable displayed
  • Relationships do not exist

Questão 5

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What is directional hypothesis?
Responda
  • Nature (positive or negative) of interaction between two or more variables is stated
  • No nature of interaction with variable
  • Interaction between three or more variables
  • Absent variables

Questão 6

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Null hypothesis is:
Responda
  • Two or more variables
  • States difference between variables or relationships
  • States there is no difference or relationship between variables
  • States numbers and variables

Questão 7

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Null hypothesis is also called statistical hypothesis
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 8

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What is a research hypothesis?
Responda
  • States what researcher thinks is false
  • States what writer thinks
  • States what researcher thinks is true
  • Researchers knowledge

Questão 9

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A research hypothesis is a relationship between two or more variables
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 10

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Rates of use of healthcare facilities by ethnic minorities are higher in facilities with bilingual health care staff
Responda
  • Directional hypothesis
  • Simple hypothesis
  • Correlations hypothesis
  • Null hypothesis

Questão 11

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There is a positive relationship between nurse attitudes towards AIDS patients and number of AIDS patients for whom they have cared.
Responda
  • Simple hypothesis
  • Correctional hypothesis
  • Directional hypothesis
  • Null hypothesis

Questão 12

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There is a relationship between social distance in families and burden of caregiving for chronically ill adults
Responda
  • Correctional hypothesis
  • Simple hypothesis
  • Null hypothesis
  • Directional hypothesis

Questão 13

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There is no difference between attitudes of men and women toward caring for people with AIDS
Responda
  • Correctional hypothesis
  • Null hypothesis
  • Simple hypothesis
  • Directional hypothesis

Questão 14

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What are variables?
Responda
  • Qualities, properties, or characteristics of people, things, or situations that are manipulated or measured in research
  • Variables are weighed and tested
  • Variables are measured with instruments and/or intensity scales
  • Variables are multiples

Questão 15

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What are types of variables?
Responda
  • Independent variables
  • Dependent variables
  • Research variables or concepts
  • Extraneous variable
  • Demographic variables
  • Multiple variables

Questão 16

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Independent variable is also called treatment or experimental variable
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 17

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Do independent variables change?
Responda
  • Yes
  • No

Questão 18

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Do independent variables cause the dependent variables to change?
Responda
  • No
  • Yes

Questão 19

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The research purpose should identify the study variables and what other key aspect of the study
Responda
  • Design
  • Measurement tools
  • Population
  • Statistics

Questão 20

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The dependent variable is the outcome or response the researcher does not want to predict
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 21

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What are extraneous variables?
Responda
  • They can interfere with obtaining clear understanding of relational or casual dynamics in the study
  • They have blurry understanding of casual dynamics
  • A recognized variables
  • No variable

Questão 22

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An environmental variable is an uncontrolled variable relating to the setting
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 23

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If the variable is not recognized until the study is in process or cannot be controlled
Responda
  • Measured variable
  • Confounding variable
  • Demographic variables

Questão 24

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Examples of demographic variables
Responda
  • Contain sample characteristics of subjects
  • May include age, education, gender, ethnic origin, income, medical diagnosis, graphic location
  • Develop large characteristics
  • Demographic data are analyzed to develop sample characteristics

Questão 25

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What are operational definitions?
Responda
  • Translating upward to more concrete level
  • Translating backwards to more concrete level
  • Translating downward to more concrete level
  • Scrolling to more concrete level

Questão 26

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Moves from concept to variable to measures
Responda
  • Operational definition
  • Demographic variables
  • Extraneous variables
  • Confounding variable

Questão 27

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Abstract meaning of a variable that usually is based on theory
Responda
  • Operational definition
  • Conceptual definition
  • Demographic variable

Questão 28

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Way of defining a variable that makes it measurable or manipulable in the real world
Responda
  • Operational definition
  • Conceptual definition
  • Sample variable

Questão 29

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A researcher wanted to locate a conceptual framework to guide a particular research study would most likely to find one in which of the following sources?
Responda
  • A descriptive study
  • A dissertation
  • Empirical literature
  • Theoretical literature

Questão 30

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2 types of sources
Responda
  • Primary
  • Written
  • Secondary
  • Theory

Questão 31

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What is the primary purpose for reviewing relevant literature?
Responda
  • Delineate the existing knowledge base of an identified problem
  • Develop conceptual and operational definitions of variables
  • Interpret previous research findings
  • Select the research design

Questão 32

Questão
Which of the following indexes would provide thee largest number of relevant nursing sources?
Responda
  • Medline
  • International nursing index
  • Cumulative index to nursing and allied health literature
  • Nursing studies index

Questão 33

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A variable is smaller or more concise than a concept
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 34

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What is theory?
Responda
  • Ideas and knowledge of science
  • Rational statements that presents a view
  • Helps answers question “ was my theory correct” ?
  • Based on math.
  • It does not answer a question

Questão 35

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A framework is smaller than a theory
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 36

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Abstracts are bigger than a theory
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 37

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A brief explanation of a theory or portions of a theory to be tested in a study
Responda
  • Theory
  • Sample
  • Framework
  • Focus

Questão 38

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A theory is abstract rather than concrete
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 39

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More comprehensive than a dictionary definition
Responda
  • Conceptual
  • Map
  • Middle range theory

Questão 40

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What does a study framework reflect?
Responda
  • Blueprint for the study
  • Data analysis
  • Researchers “theory” or idea about the study
  • Specific plan for data collection

Questão 41

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Theories are constructed by people and are tentative in nature
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 42

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Abstractly describe and name an object, idea, or phenomenon, this providing it with a separate identity or meaning
Responda
  • Conceptual definition
  • Concepts
  • Relational statement
  • Map or model

Questão 43

Questão
More comprehensive than a dictionary definition; includes associated meanings a word may have
Responda
  • Concepts
  • Relational statement
  • Conceptual definition
  • Map or model

Questão 44

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Clarifies the type of relationship that exists between or among concepts
Responda
  • Concepts
  • Relational statement
  • Map
  • Model

Questão 45

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Graphically shows the interrelationships of the concepts and relational statements
Responda
  • Map or model
  • Relational statement
  • Concepts
  • Conceptual definition

Questão 46

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What are middle range theories?
Responda
  • Less abstract and narrower in scope than conceptual models
  • More broader and wider in scope
  • Emerge from review of studies to build evidence based practice related to a clinical problem
  • It is just a theory

Questão 47

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Which is true about theoretical frameworks used in research?
Responda
  • Theories are congruent with reality
  • Theories represent ultimate truth
  • Theories are constructed by people and are tentative in nature
  • Precise guidance in situations

Questão 48

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“ Do this so you can get a better outcome”
Responda
  • Prescriptive theory
  • Concepts
  • Framework
  • Abstracts

Questão 49

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Practice theory is not a prescriptive theory
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 50

Questão
What are frameworks
Responda
  • Frameworks explain the theory
  • Frameworks give relationships of variables
  • Results in hypothesis which is testable

Questão 51

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Middle-range theories are developed in some qualitative studies as outcome of study
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 52

Questão
Transcultural nursing theory
Responda
  • Leiningers
  • Peplau

Questão 53

Questão
Interpersonal relations
Responda
  • Peplau
  • Leininger

Questão 54

Questão
What defines the selected group of people or elements from which data are collected for a study
Responda
  • Map
  • Sample
  • Population
  • Framework

Questão 55

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Sampling plan defines the selection process
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 56

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Members of a sample are called subjects or participants
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 57

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An entire set of individuals or elements who meet the sampling criteria
Responda
  • Target population
  • Accessible population
  • Elements

Questão 58

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The portion of the target population to which the researcher has reasonable access
Responda
  • Target population
  • Accessible population
  • Elements

Questão 59

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Individual units of a population and sample
Responda
  • Target population
  • Accessible population
  • Elements

Questão 60

Questão
Sampling in research may be defined as
Responda
  • Insurance that each person has a chance of being included in the study
  • Establishment of criteria for eligibility to participate in a study
  • Identification of the population in which the researcher is interested
  • Selection of a subset of a population to represent the whole population

Questão 61

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As similar as possible so as to control for extraneous variables
Responda
  • Homogeneous sample
  • Heterogeneous sample

Questão 62

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Represents a broad range of values
Responda
  • Homogeneous sample
  • Heterogeneous sample

Questão 63

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Expected difference in values that occur when different subjects from same sample are examined
Responda
  • Random variations
  • Systematic variation

Questão 64

Questão
Consequences of selecting subjects whose measurement values differ in some way from this rose of the population
Responda
  • Random variation
  • Systematic variation

Questão 65

Questão
Percentage of subject who declined to participate in study
Responda
  • Refusal rate
  • Acceptance rate

Questão 66

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Percentage of subjects who consented to be in the study
Responda
  • Refusal rate
  • Acceptance rate

Questão 67

Questão
RCT means randomized controlled trials
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 68

Questão
The population from which the researcher selects the actual study sample
Responda
  • Accessible population
  • Scientific population
  • Target population
  • Theoretical population

Questão 69

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What is purpose sampling?
Responda
  • Also called judgmental or selective sampling
  • Include typical and atypical subjects
  • Based on researchers judgment
  • Is in quantitiveresearch

Questão 70

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What is network sampling?
Responda
  • Also called snowball sampling
  • Take advantage of social networks to get the sample
  • One person in the sample asks another to join the sample
  • Takes disadvantage of social networking

Questão 71

Questão
What is theoretical sampling?
Responda
  • Used in grounded theory research
  • Data are gathered from any individual or group that can provide relevant data for theory generation
  • The sample is saturated when the data collection is completed based on the researchers expectations
  • Diversity in the sample is encouraged

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