This can include, but is not limited to, using someone’s words without attribution, and failing to properly cite a source, omitting page numbers for direct quotations.
What is plagiarism?
100
A researcher’s way of explaining their plan to measure and/or observe a concept or variable of interest.
What is an operational definition?
100
Likely to be what a researcher manipulates rather than what a researcher measures.
What is an independent variable?
100
The accuracy of a measurement for quantifying constructs or observations.
What is validity?
200
A research paradigm that assumes reality is ordered, fixed, and measured.
What is positivism?
200
The rules, or guidelines, we follow to make sure we are protecting the people we are studying.
What is human subjects protection?
200
This method of quantitative data collection is best for establishing the existence of a particular phenomenon and how often it occurs.
What is content analysis?
200
This type of variable can cause a spurious correlation.
What is a confound variable?
200
Qualitative researchers prefer this over validity and reliability.
What is credibility?
300
A research paradigm that seeks social change.
What is critical/cultural?
300
Researchers must give participants sufficient information about the study, including potential risks and benefits, in order for them to determine whether they want to take part in the study.
What is informed consent?
300
Measurement that relies on establishing standard, equal distances between points on a scale.
What is interval level measurement?
300
The terms reversible, sequential, and stochastic are some of the ways that researchers describe these.
What are relationships between variables?
300
The minimum acceptable level of reliability.
What is .70?
400
Someone who believes that reality is determined by social and interpersonal interactions and experience.
What is a social constructionist?
400
If a researcher did this, they ought to make sure that they debrief participants after the experiment and let them know what they did.
What is deceiving participants?
400
This method of quantitative data collection is best for establishing a causal connection between variables.
What is an experiment?
400
The portion of a population that a researcher has access to.
What is a sampling frame?
400
Simply looking at the measures or procedures and asking if it makes sense.
What is face validity?
500
Once we believe something, we tend to pay special attention to those experiences and situations that are consistent with our beliefs, and disregard those that are inconsistent with our beliefs.
What is cognitive conservatism?
500
This type of research works to breakdown power differentials by inviting research participants to assist in study design and interpretation of results.
What is participatory action research?
500
An excellent method for collecting information about attitudes, opinions, or values.
What is self-report?
500
Representative subsets of the population are established. Then researchers sample randomly within the subsets, allowing the subsets to represent the entire population.
What is cluster sampling?
500
The tendency for subjects to respond differently when they know they are being observed.