Monday 26 November 2018

research ethics ugc net questions

1. Research is not considered ethical if it
 (a) Tries to prove a particular point (b) Does not ensure privacy and anonymity of the respondent
(c) Does not investigate the data scientifically (d) Is not of a very high standard
2. Ethical transgression is
 (a) Following ethical principles (b) Defying ethical principles
 (c) Defining ethics (d) None of the above

 4. Which of the following ideas is not associated with the stance of situation ethics?
(a) Anything goes (b) The end justifies the means (c) No choice (d) All of the above

5. Which of the following is a form of harm that might be suffered by research participants?
(a) Physical injury (b) Stress and anxiety (c) Impaired development (d) All of the above

6. The main purpose of personal data being kept confidential in research studies is
 (a) To hide from participants what has been written about them
(b) Apprehension of harm identification or disclosure of personal information (c) For access by government authorities (d) To know more about private lives of participants

7. Which method is most directly associated with lack of informed consent?
(a) In-depth interviewing (b) Content analysis (c) Covert observation (d) Case study

240. Which of the following is a form of harm that might be suffered by research participants?
(a) Psychological distress (b) Physical injury (c) Loss of self-esteem (d) All of the above

8. The act of publishing the same data and results in more than one journal or publication refers to which of the following professional issues
(a) Partial publication (b) Duplicate publication (c) Full publication (d) None of the above

 9. Why is it important that personal data about research participants be kept within secure, confidential records?
(a) To observe principle of research ethics
 (b) To sell the data at a later stage to recover the cost of research
 (c) To keep secrecy from other researchers
 (d) None of the above

 10.The importance of measurement in quantitative research is that
 (a) It allows us to delineate fine differences between people or cases
 (b) It provides a consistent device or yardstick
(c) It allows for precise estimates of the degree of relationship between concepts
 (d) All of the above

 11. One of the preoccupations of quantitative researchers is with generalization, which is a sign of (a) External validity (b) Internal reliability (c) External reliability (d) Internal validity

12. Population generalizability refers to
(a) Conclusions researchers make about a random sample
 (b) Conclusions researchers make about information uncovered in research study
(c) The degree to which a sample represents the population of interest
(d) The degree to which results of a study can be extended to other settings or conditions

13. The degree to which results of a study can be extended to other settings or conditions describes (a) Population generalizability (b) Conclusions researchers make about a random sample
(c) Conclusions researchers make about information uncovered in research study
(d) Ecological generalizability

14. The research design is
 (a) A common method adopted by all researchers to carry out research
(b) The final choice between using qualitative or quantitative methods
 (c) Presentation of research findings
(d) A framework for every stage of the data collection and its analysis

15. Recognizing our own values in pursuit of research is essential because
 (a) It allows us to eliminate them.
(b) It allows us to be honest with ourselves about what may influence our research.
(c) At least we know what we can ignore (d) It enables us to persuade others of our values.

 16. As the value of one variable is increasing, the value of second variable is also increasing, then the correlation coefficient will be (a) Positive (b) Negative (c) Zero (d) None of the above

 17. Which form of reasoning is the process of drawing a specific conclusion from a set of premises? (a) Rationalism (b) Deductive reasoning (c) Inductive reasoning (d) Probabilistic

18. It is important that academics produce research that can be widely used and valued by academic community around the world. This is termed as
(a) Research impact (b) Citation impact (c) Ethics impact (d) None of the above

19. The problem of researcher seeing only what they expect to see is called
 (a) Researcher bias (b) Experimenter effect (c) Leniency effect (d) Halo effect

 20. Which of the following is most appropriate to impart training for SPSS, a software package used for statistical analysis? (a) Seminar (b) Conference (c) Workshop (d) Paper

 21. Which of the following is essentially an academic meeting?
 (a) Colloquium (b) Conference (c) Symposium (d) None of the above

22. In which of the following, it is required to cite sources in a bibliography at the end?
 (a) Conference (b) Colloquium (c) Seminar (d) Paper

23. Which of the following is most likely to make use of the Internet?
 (a) Web Conference (b) Seminar (c) Symposium (d) None of the above

 24. Which of the following is published in a journal?
 (a) Article (b) Paper (c) Both (a) and (b) (d) None of the above

25. A researcher conducted three experiments with 100 subjects each following uniform design instead of one experiment with 300 subjects. This is known as
 (a) Replication (b) Manipulation (c) Observation (d) Validation


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