This question gives respondents freedom in answering questions and a chance to provide in-depth responses.
What is a Open-ended Question.
100
A systematic procedure devised to examine the content of recorded information.
What is Content Anaylsis.
100
Taking time and effort to organize the experiment properly and to ensure that it is the right type of data is called
What is an experimental design.
100
A research method that uses flexible questioning.
What is Qualitative Research.
100
This is a subset of the population that is representative of the entire population.
What is a sample.
200
Attempts to describe and explain why situations exist.
What is an Analytical Survey
200
An experiment preformed outside the labratory.
What is a field experiment.
200
A research method that uses standardized questioning.
What is Quantitative Research
200
A group or class of subjects, variable, concepts, or phenomena is a
What is a Population.
300
Affrimative response to the hidden premise is implied.
What is a double bind question.
300
This means to specify the boundaries of the body of content to be considered which requires an appropriate operational definition of the relevent population.
What is Universe.
300
this uses the same subjects with every condition of the research including the control.
What is a repeated measures design.
300
This is when the act of observing some situation changes the situatuion itself.
What is Reactivity.
300
This is the characteristics or propery of a population.
What is Parameters.
400
This would be an example of what kind of question:
"Like most Americans,do you read a newspaper everyday?"
What is a leading question.
400
A dominant message or theme in media content which is documented by systematic procedures and separate study of the audience is conducted to see whether these messages are fostering similar attitudes.
What is Cultivation Anaysis.
400
A research design that does not involve random asignment of subjects to experimental groups.
What is a Quasi-Experiment.
400
This is a qualitative technique useful for collecting data and for generating hypotheses and theories.
What is a field observation.
400
This is the approach used to get adequate representation of a subsample.
What is a Stratified Sample.
500
This eliminates many problems such as skipped patterns and rotation of questions.
What is CATI.
500
This agreement is usually quantified in the content analysis.
What is Intercoder Reliability.
500
This combines the first two designs and is useful if pretesting is considered to be a negative factor.
What is the Solomon Four-Group Design.
500
This is an accepted set of theories, procedures, and assumptions about how researcher look at the world.
What is a paradigm.
500
This is the probability of rejecting a null hypothesis that is in fact true.