TCU Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

True or False. Regarding the United States between 1865 and 1900, the nation's population doubled. Correct Answer: False, population tripled True or False. Regarding the United States between 1865 and 1900, the economic growth of the nation was more than double that of Great Britain. Correct Answer: True True or False. Regarding the United States between 1865 and 1900, the agricultural production more than doubled. Correct Answer: True True or False. Dozens of industrial corporation...

What is research? Correct Answer: An attempt to discover something 4 types of research Correct Answer: Personal Applied- uses existing knowledge, research for a specific purpose Predictive Academic Positivism Correct Answer: do you believe that there is a "logically ordered, objective reality that we can come to know?" The Interpretive Way Correct Answer: There is not one truth, but multiple truths. It is relative to the context. 2 People are active. Meaning is the key to di...

What is a Subject? Correct Answer: Any person, object, practice, or process that is observed for research purposes What is an Operational Definition? Correct Answer: Defining a word in terms of the specific process or application at hand, using a set of validation tests to determine its meaning. What is an Independent Variable? Correct Answer: A variable that is manipulated by the researcher What is a Dependent Variable? Correct Answer: The variable that is measured and is expected to...

Warren G. Harding promised a resturn to: Correct Answer: Normalcy Who was the US Secretary of Treasury under Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover? Correct Answer: Andrew Mellon Economic Policy favored by Harding and Cooliding administrations? Correct Answer: Tax cuts across the board How did prohibition become a law in 1919? Correct Answer: Amendment in constitution Who was the Chicago mob boss during prohibition? Correct Answer: Al Capone Which president did prohibition end with? 2 Correct...

Accounting Cycle Correct Answer: The process followed by entities to analyze and record transactions, adjust the records at the end of the period, prepare the records for the next cycle Accrued Expenses Correct Answer: Previously unrecorded expenses that need to be adjusted at the end of the accounting period to reflect the amount incurred and the related payable account Accrued Revenues Correct Answer: Previously unrecorded revenues that need to be adjusted at the end of the accounti...

Where did the world first urbanize, and why? How did urbanization spread around the world, geographically? Correct Answer: - Fertile Crescent in Mesopotamia in 3625 B.C. between - agriculture led to the first cities How have shares of the world's population shifted between urban and rural areas over the past several decades? Correct Answer: - The world became majority urban population in the last 200 years from industrialization - 2008 marked majority urban - The rural population h...

Effect on audience members that they only retain to the first/last thing the speaker says. Correct Answer: Primacy/recency effect At the beginning of the speech, used to captivate the audience and slightly introduce your topic. Could be a rhetorical question, a quote, an imaginary statement, humorous, an anecdote, etc.. Correct Answer: Attention getter Why it is it relevant to the audience? What's in it for them? Correct Answer: Relevance statement Why are you qualified to speak about...

What are essential parts of organizational life, they make better decisions together, and are more creative/productive than individuals? Correct Answer: groups & teams What is composed of 2 or more individuals who interact with one another to achieve certain goals or meet certain needs? Correct Answer: groups What 3 things define great groups? Correct Answer: fast decisions, conflict is used effectively, group members get along What are the 5 factors of the great group process? Correc...

DDL (Data Definition Language) Correct Answer: commands to create database objects such as tables, indexes, and views, as well as commands to define access rights to those objects DML (Data Manipulation Language) Correct Answer: commands to insert, update delete and retrieve data within database tables Type of integrity is enforced when a primary key is declared Correct Answer: Entity, in create table command sequence referential constraint actions Correct Answer: Makes sure that if a p...

political science Correct Answer: an academic discipline that uses science to study politics All aspects of the definition of science Correct Answer: Uses inferences, Uses empirical, not normative questions, is falsifiable, is transparent, is cumulative Inference Correct Answer: making connections between phenomena we have observed and phenomena we expect to observe Empirical vs. normative claims Correct Answer: how things are vs. how things should/ought to be Tautology 2 Correct A...