A Famous Social Scientist Tells You That the Most Important

question 10

Multiple Choice

A famous social scientist tells you that the most important task in her research was entering the social world of the people she was studying. What can you say about this researcher?

• A) She worries about ethical issues in her research.
• B) She is a qualitative researcher.
• C) She cannot use interviews as a methodology.
• D) She exclusively uses quantitative methods.

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Definitions:

Learning

The process of acquiring new understanding, knowledge, behaviors, skills, values, attitudes, and preferences.

Adaptation

The process by which a species becomes fitted to its environment; it is the result of natural selection acting upon heritable variation.

Genes

Units of heredity made up of DNA that are responsible for determining the characteristics of an organism.

Operant Conditioning Procedure

A method of learning that employs rewards and punishments for behavior, encouraging the occurrence of desired behaviors and discouraging undesired ones.