Topic 1
Define political science.
What is the study of politics.
A review or discussion of the currently published material available on a particular topic
What is a literature review?
Thought to be caused, to depend upon, or to be a function of an independent variable.
What is a dependent variable
Scientists might want to know whether drinking large volumes of cola leads to tooth decay, or they might want to find out whether jumping on a trampoline causes joint problems is an example of.
What is correlation vs causation ?
Quantitative research designs are also referred to as "_____" designs.
What is: Large N
Data that relies on numerical values.
What is quantitative data.
A literature review demonstrates your ability to research; it also showcases your expertise on your chosen topic. This is how literature reviews are written.
What is it to summarize, synthesize, and evaluate research on a specific topic?
According to this radical political figure, women are left out of GDP.
Who is Marilyn Waring
Qualitative and Quantitative are both categories related to ______.
What is research methods?
In this method of sampling, each subject has an equal probability of being chosen.
Data that relies on non-numerical values, such as text, video, photographs, and more.
What is qualitative data.
Organized by topic or issue, it may still involve chronology or order of importance; this is an organization style of literature review
What is the thematic style of organization of a literature review?
Nominal, Ordinal, Ratio, and Interval are all categories under this part of research design
What is Level of Measurement
The social media that an article for Topic 4 was written about.
What is Twitter?
A research design that measures a dependent variable at different times and attempts to determine whether the level of the variable is changing and, is known as
Trend Analysis
A report summarizing ethical principles and guidelines for research involving human subjects.
What is the Belmont Report.
Organized not by the content of lit review material but by the methods of the researcher/writer, this is an organization style of literature review
What is the methodological style of organization of a literature review?
These are the three requirements of any hypothesis
What is clear, testable, and specific
There are four levels of variables in data collection. They are:
What is nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio?
These kinds of experiments are conducted outside of a laboratory setting, while still using some lab methodology to conduct testing.
What is field experiments.
Research based on actual, objective observation of phenomena.
What is empirical research.
The article topic two assignment was centered around.
What is “The Effect of Negative Campaign Advertising on Vote Choice: The Mediating Influence of Gender”?
The next step in the research process after one “forms a hypothesis based on the observation.”
What is making predictions based on the hypothesis
These are the four categories of research designs
What is experimental, cross-sectional, longitudinal, observational ?
These are the three main types of quantitative research designs.
Randomized experimental, quasi-experimental, and observational.