Business Relationship Management Online MCQ Practice Set

Question: ___ allow a researcher to examine the degree and Direction of the relationship betweentwo characteristics or variables.

A. Correlational designs
B. Quasi-experimental designs
C. Confounding variables
D. Experimental designs

Question: ___ is the failure to reject a false null hypothesis.

A. Type I error
B. Type II error
C. Type A error
D. Type B error

Question: ___. .is true of the null and alternative hypotheses.

A. Exactly one hypothesis must be true
B. both hypotheses must be true
C. It is possible for both hypotheses to be true
D. It is possible for neither hypothesis to be true

Question: A cell is a combination of two or more ___ in a factorial design.

A. Research designs
B. Research measurements
C. Dependent variables
D. Independent variables

Question: A dependent variable refers to ___.

A. The experimental condition
B. The variable which shows us the effect of the manipulation.
C. The variable being manipulated or varied in some way by the researcher
D. A variable with a single value which remains constant in a particular context

Question: A developmental research design that examines age differences at only one point in time is called the ___ method.

A. Cross-sectional
B. Longitudinal
C. Single-case
D. Sequential

Question: A factorial design is one in which ___

A. Only one independent variable is studied to determine its effect on the dependent variable
B. Only two independent variables are simultaneously studied to determine their independent and interactive effects on the dependent variable
C. Two or more independent variables are simultaneously studied to determine their independent and interactive effects on the dependent variable
D. Two dependent variables are studied to determine their interactive effects

Question: A list of questions which is handed over to the respondent, who reads the questions and records the answers himself is known as the ___

A. Interview schedule
B. Questionnaire
C. Interview guided.
D. All of the given options

Question: A literature review requires

A. Planning
B. Good & clear writing
C. Lot of rewriting
D. All of the above

Question: A null hypothesis can only be rejected at the 5% significance level if and only if–

A. a 95% confidence interval includes the hypothesized value of the parameter
B. a 95% confidence interval does not include the hypothesized value of the parameter
C. the null hypothesis is void
D. the null hypotheses includes sampling error

Question: A proposal is also known as a ___.

A. Work plan
B. Prospectus
C. Outline
D. All of the above

Question: A research problem is feasible only when

A. It is researchable
B. It is new and adds something to knowledge
C. It has utility and relevance
D. All of these

Question: A researcher is interested in the effects of a preschool program on later school performance. Because she is concerned that socio-economic-status (SES) is a potential extraneous variable in her study, she picks tyldren to study who are only from low SES homes. The control technique she used in this study was- ___

A. Matching
B. Random assignment
C. Holding the extraneous variable constant
D. Statistically controlling the extraneous variable

Question: A study in which quantitative and qualitative data are collected at the same time is a ___

A. Concurrent mixed method design
B. Mixed method design
C. Sequential mixed method design
D. Cross-sectional mixed method design

Question: A Type I error is also known as a ___

A. False positive
B. False negative
C. Double negative
D. Positive negative

Question: A Type II error is also known as a ___

A. False positive
B. False negative
C. Double negative
D. Positive negative

Question: A variable that is presumed to cause a change in another variable is called as ___

A. Categorical variable
B. Dependent variable
C. Independent variable
D. Intervening variable

Question: According to Burrell & Morgan (1979) one of the following is not a paradigm within business research methods is ___

A. Radical structuralist
B. Radical positivist
C. Functionalist
D. Interpretative

Question: According to Goodstein’s (2000) “evolved theory of science,” which of the following is not a characteristic of scientific inquiry?

A. Scientists make observations that are accurately reported to other scientists and the public so others can replicate the methods and obtain the same results.
B. Science flourishes when there is an open system for the exchange of ideas in which supporters and those who disagree with an idea can report their research and it can be evaluated by others.
C. Research studies must be reviewed by peers before they become a part of the scientific literature.
D. Scientists search for observations that support ideas popular to others and viewed by other scientists as publishable.

Question: After a researcher has stated the specific problem to be studied in an experiment, he must then develop a ___

A. Theory
B. Conclusion
C. Hypothesis
D. Summary of the data