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Research Methods (9th edition)

Chapter 1 True/False Questions
Curiosity, Creativity, and Commitment

Challenge yourself with these true/false questions. Click on your choice to see if you are correct.

  1. Laboratory equipment and statistical procedures are the main products of science. (True/False)

  2. The art of asking questions is new to modern, twentieth century science. (True/False)

  3. Scientists seek answers to their own questions. (True/False)

  4. The essence of science is its tools and applied products. (True/False)

  5. Science involves a process of inquiry. (True/False)

  6. It was Wallace who preceded Darwin's thesis on natural selection. (True/False)

  7. A very important component in science is skepticism. (True/False)

  8. The trait of curiosity is of little help to a scientist. (True/False)

  9. Science and art are similar, each employing variations of the same themes. (True/False)

  10. The essence of science is its systematic, disciplined way of thinking. (True/False)

  11. The term "empiricism" refers to a way of knowing in which knowledge is acquired without the involvement of sensory processes. (True/False)

  12. Modern science did not emerge until the 1950s. (True/False)

  13. Science is a combination of rationalism and authority. (True/False)

  14. Early Greek empiricism did not depend upon observation through the senses. (True/False)

  15. It appears that, in the history of science, empiricism preceded rationalism. (True/False)

  16. Accepting as knowledge information gained through sensory observation of real events is called empiricism. (True/False)

  17. Rationalism accepts knowledge through reasoning processes alone. (True/False)

  18. Complex civilizations existed more than 8,000 years ago. (True/False)

  19. Authority is a method of accepting knowledge on the basis that some respected person has asserted its truth. (True/False)

  20. The artisans' early, practical skills were, in essence, empirical skills. (True/False)

  21. Socrates is considered the "father of science." (True/False)

  22. A theory of biological evolution was developed by the early Greeks before 400 B.C. (True/False)

  23. Ionia was an early Greek colony in which important empirical philosophers lived and studied. (True/False)

  24. Plato was the ultimate empiricist. (True/False)

  25. The medieval church of Rome rejected all science. (True/False)

  26. An early Greek empiricist was Thales. (True/False)

  27. Modern psychology is not limited to being a social science. (True/False)

  28. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries psychologists believed that women were not as intelligent as men. (True/False)

  29. In the early 20th century women were barred from higher education. (True/False)

  30. Although society in general in the first decades of the 20th century was prejudiced against women in higher education, psychologists were ahead of the times and worked vigorously to admit women into graduate programs and into the profession of psychology. (True/False)

  31. Prejudice against ethnic minority groups in psychology ended by the early twentieth century. (True/False)

  32. Ethical guidelines are of major importance in research. (True/False)