QUIZ

 1.      Preliminary data collection is a part of the

A)Descriptive research

B)Exploratory research

C)Applied research

D)Explanatory research

 

 

2.      Science refers to __________.

A) A system for producing knowledge

B) The knowledge produced by a system

C) Both A & B

D) None of the above

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3.      Which of the following is the main quality of a good theory?

A)A theory that has survived attempts at falsification

B)A theory that is proven to be right

C)A theory that has been disproved

D)A theory that has been falsified

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4.      Longitudinal type of research examine feature of any unit at more than ______ time.

A)One

B)Two

C)More than one

D)All of above

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5.      Business Research is a systematic method of ________________.

A)Collecting

B)Recording

C)Analyzing

D)All of above

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6.      Business Research techniques Classified in _______________.

A)Exploratory research

B)Descriptive research

C)Causal research

D)All of above

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7.      Time-series studies called as __________.

A) Exploratory research

B) Descriptive research

C) Longitudinal Studies

D) None of the above

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8.      When little is known about the problem, research seeking to discover the cause of a Problem by discussing the problem with informed sources and examining pre-existing data Is undertaken. This type of research is:

A)Situation analysis.

B)Information investigation.

C)Exploratory research.

D)Bottom-line analysis.

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9.      Information collected for the first time specifically for a business research study is called ___________.

A)Secondary research.

B)Primary research.

C)Soft research.

D)Experimental research.

 

 

10.  The purpose of __________________ research is to help in the process of developing a clear and precise statement of the research problem rather than in providing a definitive answer.

A)Marketing

B)Causal

C)Exploratory

D)Descriptive

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11.  Secondary data can almost always be obtained more quickly and at a lower cost than __________data.

A)Tertiary

B)Collective

C)Research

D)Primary

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12.  Research that is conducted without having a specific decision in mind is called

A)Basic business research

B)Applied business research

C)Evaluation research

D)Performance monitoring research

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13.  The value of research is

A)It provides Knowledge

B)It reduces uncertainity.

C)Reduce Pain.

 

 

14.  Explanatory Research identify the ____for something that occurred.

A)Validity

B)Reasons

C)Truth

 

 

15.  __________focuses on refuting or supporting theories that explain how this world operates, what makes things happen, why social relations are a certain way, and why society changes.

A)Descriptive

B)Applied

C)Basic research

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16.  Basic research generates new ideas, principles and theories, which may not be ________utilized; though are the foundations of modern progress and development in different fields

A)Lately

B)Immediately

C)None of above

 

 

17.  Theory is less central to them than seeking a solution on a specific problem for a limited setting in __________

A)Basic

B)Applied

C)Both

 

 

18.  In ______________research, researchers observe at one point in time.

A)cross-sectional

B)Time Series

C)Panel study

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19.  ___________research examine features of people or other units at more than one time.

A)cross-sectional

B)Time Series

C)Longitudinal

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20.  _________and ________are the two purposes of theory.

A)Prediction

B)Understanding

C)Prediction, understanding

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21.  ___________ is the hypothesis should be (experimentally) testable

A)Testability

B)Rigour

C)Purposiveness

D)All of these

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22.  ________________ possibility to replicate the research again and again.

A)Testability

B)Replicability

C)Purposiveness

D)All of these

 

 

23.  _____________ refers to the closeness of the findings to “reality” based on a sample.

A)Testability

B)Replicability

C)Precision

D)All of these

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24.  Precision reflects the degree of __________ or __________ of the results on the basis of the sample, to what really exists in the universe.

A)Testability

B)Replicability

C)accuracy or exactitude

D)All of these

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25.  _____ based, not on the factual, data-based research findings, but on the subjective opinion of the researcher.

A)Testability

B)Objectivity

C)accuracy or exactitude

D)All of these

 

 

26.  Generalizability refers to the scope of applicability of the research findings in one organizational setting to other _________.

A)Settings

B)Objectivity

C)accuracy or exactitude

D)All of these

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27.  which of the following is not the hall mark of the research.

A)Purposiveness

B)Objectivity

C)Data collection

D)None of these

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28.  Hypothetico-deductive method, is that a hypothesis must also be falsifiable.

A)not testable

B)testable

C)falsifiable

D)None of these

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29.  To test the hypothesis that unresponsive employees affect customer switching, we need to __________ unresponsiveness and customer switching

A)operationalize

B)hypothsize

C)measured

D)None of these

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30.  In deductive reasoning, we start with a ____ theory and then apply this theory to a ________ case.

A)general, specific

B)specific, general

C)operationalize, general

D)None of these

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31.  A ___________ is a conceptual model of how one theorizes the relationships among the several factors that have been identified as important to the problem.

A)theoretical framework

B)specific framework

C)variable

D)none of these

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32.  The theoretical framework discusses the ___________ among the variables that  are deemed to be integral to the dynamics of the situation being investigated

A)interrelationships

B)specific framework

C)theory

D)None of these

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33.  A ___ that provides an explanation for relationships between the variables in your model.

A)theoretical framework

B)specific framework

C)theory

D)None of these

 

 

34.  Examples of _________ are exam scores, absenteeism, and motivation

A)theoretical framework

B)variables

C)theory

D)None of these

 

 

35.  The ______ variable, or the one that identifies forces or conditions that act on something else, is the independent variable..

A)cause

B)affect

C)theory

D)None of these

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36.  The broad problem area refers to the entire situation where one sees a possible need for research and problem solving.

A)True

B)False

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37.  A problem necessarily mean that something is seriously wrong with a current situation, which needs to be rectified immediately.

A)True

B)False

 

 

38.  A literature review should help the researcher to identify and highlight the important variables that are related to the problem.

A)True

B)False

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39.  A review of the literature thus ensures that no important variable that has in the past been found repeatedly to have had an impact on the problem is ignored in the process of defining the problem statement.

A)True

B)False

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40.  A literature review is a step-by-step process that involves the identification of published and unpublished work from secondary data sources on the topic of interest, the evaluation of this work in relation to the problem, and the documentation of this work.

A)True

B)False

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