Read each question carefully and then select the best answer.

Finding Out How the Social World Works, Michael Schwalbe

1		Michael Schwalbe argues that ___________ is the best source of knowledge and information.
			A)	personal experience
			B)	logical deduction
			C)	systematic research
			D)	mystical revelation
2		All of the following are advantages of systematic research EXCEPT
			A)	research reveals the absolute truth
			B)	research lets us check up on each other's arguments and findings
			C)	research gets us beyond personal experience and casual observation
			D)	research standardizes the process of how we find things out and allows researchers to control personal biases
3		Social research is best designed to answer ____________ questions.
			A)	aesthetic
			B)	empirical
			C)	moral
			D)	subjective
4		Schwalbe believes that part of being sociologically mindful is to be skeptical toward all knowledge.
			A)	True
			B)	False
5		According to Schwalbe, there are more poor black people than poor white people in the United States.
			A)	True
			B)	False

Interpersonal Dynamics In a Simulated Prison, Haney, Banks, and Zimbardo

6		What is the primary ethical concern of Zimbardo's prison study?
			A)	he paid his participants
			B)	his participants were traumatized by participating in the study
			C)	he used his authority as a professor to encourage students to participate
			D)	he only debriefed the participants after the research is over
7		In Zimbardo's prison study, what was the dispositional hypothesis?
			A)	The social atmosphere of a prison causes prisoners and guards to take on dehumanizing roles in group-interaction.
			B)	The nature of the individual is what causes prisoners and guards to play dehumanizing roles in group-interaction.
			C)	Criminals are dehumanized upon committing a criminal act.
			D)	An institution based on crime must use dehumanization to keep its population under control.
8		Results of the "Stanford County Prison Experiment" the dispositional hypothesis.
			A)	overwhelmingly confirmed
			B)	did not address
			C)	contradicted
			D)	supported
9		In the prison study, if the guards treated prisoners differently than they had been instructed, the researchers intervened.
			A)	True
			B)	False
10		The simulated prison experiment showed that "normal" people can easily adopt "criminal" behaviors.
			A)	True
			B)	False

Not Our Kind of Girl, Elaine Bell Kaplan

11		What is the primary focus of Kaplan's sociological research on teen motherhood?
			A)	teenage mothers are morally at fault as individuals
			B)	teenage pregnancy is a socioeconomic, structural problem
			C)	this study lends itself to constructing public policy on teenage pregnancy
			D)	this study looks at the emotional well-being of teenage mothers
12		Kaplan found that most of the teen mothers she studied
			A)	were homeless
			B)	saw their babies' fathers occasionally
			C)	were raised on welfare
			D)	were not in high school
13		Kaplan maintains ethics in her research by not deceiving the participants, keeping the identity of the participants confidential, and by consciously grappling with the issue of her own objectivity.
			A)	True
			B)	False
14		Kaplan's hypothesis is that there is something psychologically wrong with teenage girls who get pregnant.
			A)	True
			B)	False
15		Being African American helped Kaplan, as a researcher, obtain her subjects' confidence almost immediately.
			A)	True
			B)	False