THE BASICS
This type of data produces numerical statistics, whereas that type of data produces descriptive and conceptual findings.
What is Quantitative data AND Qualitative data?
The misrepresentation of information about the nature of a study.
What is deception?
It is important for survey/interview to be what so people can easily understand and respond to them.
What is simple?
All individuals of interest to a researcher.
What is the population?
These are inclinations, tendencies, or opinions of researchers that may skew the results of their studies.
What is bias OR researcher bias?
In this type of analysis, a reviewer reads a number of studies that address a particular topic and then writes a paper summarizing and evaluating the literature.
What is Literary Analysis?
The use of seemingly scientific terms and demonstrate to substantiate non-scientific claims.
What is Pseudoscience?
Questions that can only be answered with a "yes" or a "no" are an example of this type of question.
What is a Close-ended question?
A smaller set of people that a researcher chooses or selects from a larger population.
What is the sample?
BLANK validity is the degree to which we can generalize the findings to other circumstances or settings, like the real-world environment.
What is External validity?
In this type of analysis, the researcher combines the actual results of their original study with that of the current, relevant literature.
What is Meta-analysis OR Empirical Analysis?
This type of review agency applies research ethics by reviewing the methods proposed for research to ensure that they are ethical.
What is an Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
These types of questions are written to lead people to respond in a certain way. An example of this type of question is: “Are you one of those hateful people that doesn’t have any religious beliefs?”
What are loaded questions?
This type of study follows participants over an extended period of time.
What is a Longitudinal study?
There are six different indicators of BLANK validity: face validity, content validity, predictive validity, concurrent validity, convergent validity, and discriminant validity.
What is construct?
A proposed explanation about a phenomenon that acts as a starting point for further investigation.
What is a Hypothesis?
Led by The American Psychological Association (APA), this set of 5 ethical principles and standards for human research is comprised of:
1. Beneficence and nonmaleficence
2. Fidelity and responsibility
3. Integrity
4. Justice
5. Respect for people's rights and dignity
What is the APA Ethics Code?
This type of question touches upon more than one issue, yet allows only for one answer. An example of this type of question is: "How satisfied are you with your work environment and compensation?"
What are double-barreled questions?
In this type of observation, participants of a study are made aware of the researcher's presence, whereas, in this type of observation, the participants are unaware of the researcher's presence.
What is Non-concealed AND concealed observation?
Also known as a third variable, this type of variable can affect the relationship between the independent and dependent in a way that produces distorted associations between the two.
What is a Confounding Variable?
This type of variable is manipulated in a study to explore its effects, whereas this type of variable is the effect.
What is Independent Variable AND Dependent Variable?
This unethical study, supported by the U.S. Public Health Service from 1932 to 1972, involved the deliberate withholding of treatment of 399 African American men in Alabama in order to track the long-term effects of Syphilis.
What is the Tuskegee Syphilis Study?
This type of response set is when a respondent agrees or disagrees with all questions regardless of its content
When asked several questions in a row about a topic, a respondent may employ this type of response set to agree or disagree with all the questions. One way to detect this response set is to word the questions so that consistent agreement/disagreement is unlikely.
What is Yea-saying and nay-saying?
These are shortcomings of research that should be stated in its publication because they have influenced the study.
What are limitations?
Also known as “Faking good,” this tendency in respondents to express agreement or disagreement with anything that is asked can affect the validity of a study.
What is Social desirability?