Humanities Homework Help

The quiz consists of 20 questions and the time limit is 40 minutes.

Before you start doing the quiz, you have to read chapter 1-3 in the textbook. Read the course lecture notes (ppt). The notes is listed below:

Chapter 1 Learning Objectives

• Describe the four common errors in everyday reasoning.
• Define social science compared to pseudoscience.
• Explain the motivations of social research.
• Identify the four types of social research.
• Explain the difference between the positivist and constructivist orientations to social research.
• Understand the differences between quantitative and qualitative methods and the advantages of mixed methods.
• Describe the four common errors in everyday reasoning.
• Define social science compared to pseudoscience.
• Explain the motivations of social research.
• Identify the four types of social research.
• Explain the difference between the positivist and constructivist orientations to social research.
• Understand the differences between quantitative and qualitative methods and the advantages of mixed methods.

Lecture Notes

Chapter 1 lecture notes

Chapter 2 Learning Objectives

• Describe the importance of theory to research.
• Understand the difference between deductive and inductive reasoning.
• Describe the difference between a research question and a research hypothesis.
• Explain how the research circle is really a research spiral.
• Know the difference between an independent and dependent variable.
• Define the different types of validity and generalizability.

Lecture Notes

Chapter 2 lecture notes

Chapter 3 Learning Objectives

• Describe the design of the Milgram obedience experiments and some of the controversies surrounding its methods and results.
• Identify three other research projects that helped to motivate the establishment of human subjects’ protections.
• Define the Belmont Report’s three ethical standards for the protection of human subjects.
• Explain how an institutional review board (IRB) operates and how it classifies research.
• List current standards for the protection of human subjects in research.
• Describe the ethical issues related to conducting research with children and prisoners.

Lecture Notes

Chapter 3 lecture notes