Family Theories & Dynamics Midterm Exam Questions and Answers
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Course
FAML 400
Institution
FAML 400
Theories: - Answer-b) Are a set of propositions which explain a social phenomena
c) Inform research
Correct! d) Both b and c
e) all of the above
Which of the following are examples of the inductive process? - Answer-a) Observations of 3 families with troubled teens leads to empirical generali...
Family Theories & Dynamics Midterm
Exam Questions and Answers
Theories: - Answer-b) Are a set of propositions which explain a social phenomena
c) Inform research
Correct! d) Both b and c
e) all of the above
Which of the following are examples of the inductive process? - Answer-a) Observations
of 3 families with troubled teens leads to empirical generalization about all families with
teens
b) Research on a group of individuals leading to a new theory
c) Your hypothesis (eating Twinkies twice a day will make people gain weight) was
supported in your research study. Based on this finding, you suggest that it's not just
Twinkies that make you fat; it's probably all Hostess snack cakes that make you fat.
Correct! d) All of the above
Are hypotheses constructed using inductive or deductive thinking in the Wallace Wheel?
- Answer-Deductive
Give an example of how theory could inform research. - Answer-When theories are
valid and good, they stay throughout time. When theories are bad, they slowly die out.
Scientists can go back to these theories when they need a foundation and that can help
them with their research.
There are 3 major parts of theories. Provide two components (of the 3 major parts) of a
theory and a brief explanation of each one. - Answer-Assumptions: non-tested,
foundations of a theory
Concepts: the building blocks of a theory
Propositions: how the concepts of a theory affect one another
Imagine that you've just been provided with this data. Create a proposition based on the
graph below. - Answer-A theory for this is that the better a parent-child relationship is,
the less amount of time they spend on the internet and vice versa. To test it, you can
see how the children react with their parents versus the time they spend on the internet
each day.
Based on the data from Question 6, what is the type (direction) of this correlational
relationship? - Answer-negative or inverse
Identify one of the three paradigms/philosophies of science discussed in the course
materials and provide a basic description of the paradigm. - Answer-Positivism: linear
causality, there are positive facts/truths out there for us to discover
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