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Chapter 2: The Empirical Approach to Political Science
Multiple Choice
1. Knowledge that is evaluative, value-laden, and concerned with prescribing what
ought to be is known as ______ knowledge.
A. normative
B. nonnormative
C. probabilistic
D. nonprobabilistic
Answer Location: Elements of Empiricism
2. Most political scientists, like scientists in other disciplines, accept ______, in which it
is not necessary to explain or predict a phenomenon with 100 percent accuracy.
A. approximate explanation
B. nonapproximate explanation
C. probabilistic explanation
D. nonprobabilistic explanation
Answer Location: Elements of Empiricism
3. A ______ is a body of statements that systematize knowledge of, and explain,
phenomena.
A. research statement
B. hypothesis
C. null hypothesis
D. theory
Answer Location: The Importance of Theory
4. The process of reasoning from general theory to making predictions about events or
behavior in specific situations is referred to as ______.
A. deduction
B. induction
C. parsimony
D. falsifiability
Answer Location: The Importance of Theory
5. The process of reasoning going from specific observations to a general explanation
or theory is known as ______.
A. deduction
B. induction
C. reduction
D. production
Answer Location: The Importance of Theory
6. Practitioners of ______ believe that a proper goal of social science is to critique and
improve society (by making it more just and humane) rather than merely understand or
explain what is going on.
A. empiricism
B. the scientific method
C. critical theory
D. deduction
Answer Location: Constructionism and Critical Theory
7. Proponents of alternatives to the scientific methods may be labeled as ______.
A. nonempiricists
B. empiricists
C. deductionists
D. inductionists
Answer Location: Introduction
8. Which of the following is a crucial aspect of empirical theory?
A. It meets the tenets of critical theory.
B. It de-emphasizes parsimony.
C. It is not cumulative.
D. It leads to specific testable predictions.
Answer Location: The Importance of Theory
9. ______ dictates that when given a choice between two compelling explanations, the
explanation that relies on fewer explanatory factors is the better choice.
A. Falsifiability
B. Parsimony
C. Induction
D. Verification
Answer Location: Elements of Empiricism
10. Modern political science relies heavily on one kind of knowledge, knowledge
obtained through ______.
A. normative thought
B. objective observation
C. critical theory
D. constructivism
Answer Location: Elements of Empiricism
11. ______ theories claim to describe and account for an entire body of human
behavior.
A. Global
B. Narrow
C. Midrange
D. Societal
Answer Location: The Importance of Theory
12. ______ is an approach to knowledge that asserts humans actually construct--
through their social interactions and cultural and historical practices--many of the facts
they take for granted as having an independent, objective, or material reality.
A. Empiricism
B. The scientific method
C. Critical theory
D. Constructionism
Answer Location: Constructionism and Critical Theory
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