CSS831 TMA2 - Tutor Marked Assignment 2 Answers

CSS831_262 – Tutor Marked Assignment 2 (TMA2)

National Open University of Nigeria

Question 1

Correlation measures the strength of the ----- variable

• a. relative
• b. friendship
• c. independent
• d. relationship

Question 2

A hypothese needs to be ----- if it will be tested

• a. short
• b. long
• c. bright
• d. clear

Question 3

Sutherland provides us a theory of deviance called ----- association theory

• a. differential
• b. different
• c. unrelated
• d. group

Question 4

If you use hypothese in a study you are bound to ----- them

• a. test
• b. investigate
• c. pole
• d. spell

Question 5

In the scope of study the ----- content consists of the specific problem the study wishes to investigate

• a. knowledge
• b. study
• c. teaching
• d. finding

Question 6

The gap a researcher fills after research is his ----- to knowledge

• a. condition
• b. application
• c. contribution
• d. deduction

Question 7

----- Analysis enables researchers to investigate causality between variables

• a. chi-square
• b. t-test
• c. regression
• d. progression

Question 8

Miller adopted the differential association theory to dispel the ----- explanation of crime

• a. structure
• b. physical
• c. blood
• d. genetic

Question 9

A distribution in percentages or frequencies which indicate the middle splitin the distribution into two equal values is -----

• a. middle
• b. half way
• c. middle belt
• d. median

Question 10

Hypotheses in a study need to be ----- in terms of the direction of influence

• a. specific
• b. totological
• c. unclear
• d. strict