QUIZ 3 - September 7, 2012                  NAME________________


 QUIZ 3 - Sept 7, 2012           NAME_________________

1. I have a view that people who have a dog and care for them intently have fewer mental health problems than people who have no pets or who have pets and neglect them. The DEPENDENT VARIABLE IS:

   **a) Mental health problems
   b) Caring for dogs
   c) Neglecting dogs
   d) People who care or don't care
   e) Any of the above could be the dependent variable

2. The study in which African-American males with syphilis were given or denied treatment as an experiment was:

   **a) The Tuskegee study
   b) The Milgram Experiment
   c) The Zimbardo Experiment
   d) The UIC syphilis study
   e) The Agent Orange study

3. The study in which subjects were told to administer electric shocks to a "learner" to study authority was:

   a) The Nazi syndrome study
   **b) The Milgram Experiment
   c) The Agent Orange study
   d) The Zimbardo experiment
   e) The Comm-ed pricing study

4. According to class readings,  research data that we obtain that could potential harm our subjects is called:

   a) Inaccurate data
   **b) Dirty data
   c) Harmful data
   d) Unreliable data
   e) Invalid data

  5. In this week's readings, "The Tea-room Trade" was about:
      
      **a)  Homosexual sexual practices in highway rest stops
      b)  Chinese courtesy rituals while serving tea to guests
      c)  Changes in British tea-drinking culture after World War II
      d)  Environmental changes among rural marijuana growers in California
      e)  The "slave-trade" and sale of third-world worker to work in US "sweat shops"

6. Which of the following is NOT a cardinal rule in choosing a topic according, to lecture??

   **a) Make sure you can get 15-20 pages from the topic
   b) Chose a topic you like
   c) Always set out to PROVE your point in advance
   d) Make the "strange familiar" and the "familiar strange"
   e) Remember that your topic isn't really what the paper is about

7. The paper topic on "stairway to heaven....or hell" that began with a woman who wanted to "watch men's butts" was actually about:

   a) Men with huge "behinds"
   b) Men working out at the NIU rec center
   **c) Women walking up and down stairs
   d) People climbing the career ladder
   e) Making lots of money and then losing it

8. The instructor's name is:

   a) Jim Staff
   b) James Thompson
   c) Staffly James 
   d) Jim Thomas 
   e) Axl Rose

9.  Ethnography is:

   a)   The study and comparison of ethnic groups
   b)   The study of language differences from native speakers' point of view
   c)   The study of deviance (especially pornography & pharmocography)
   **d)   The study of a culture from the participants' point of view
   e)   Any sociological study that involves ethics in research
 
10. The story in "Dirty Data" about "The man who would not die" is about:

    a) A botched execution in Florida
    b) A science fiction film us as an example of an ethnographic method
    c) The memory of a deceased brother
    d) Illustrating how a coroner explained declaring a man dead while alive
    **e) A story about how relatives dealt with an uncle who wouldn't die