1. Acquiring Knowledge
This involves the persistence of superstitions
What is the method of tenacity or tenacity?
Many of the research variables of interest to Psychologists are hypothetical entities called
What is a construct or hypothetical construct?
The full names of the TWO committees that assist researchers in meeting their ethical responsibilities for human and nonhuman participants.
What are the Institutional Review Board and the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee?
The most commonly used sampling method in the behavioral sciences.
What is convenience sampling?
The purpose of this research strategy is to explain the relationship by determining the underlying cause.
What is the experimental or experimental research strategy?
What process, along with peer review, allows science to have checks and balances against fraud and errors?
What is replication?
Of the four types of subject roles discussed, what type of subjects do we WANT in our study?
What is the faithful subject role?
The three principles the Belmont Report identifies.
What are the principle for respect for persons, the principle of beneficence and the principle of justice?
When every possible outcome is equally likely.
What is a random process?
The overall category of the factor that threatens both the internal AND external validity of research studies.
What is an artifact?
In this step of the scientific method, the goal is to provide a fair and unbiased test of the research hypothesis.
What is step four or evaluate the prediction by making systematic and planned observations?
A measured score is made up of these two things.
What are the true score and error?
In very SIMPLE terms, describe passive and active deceptive.
Some semblance of = What are keeping secrets (omission) and telling lies (commission)?
The general goal of all sampling methods discussed in chapter five.
What is to obtain a representative sample or obtain a representative sample of the population?
The general threat to internal validity that affects ALL research studies .
What are environmental variables?
The method of acquiring knowledge that is usually time consuming and sometimes dangerous.
What is the empirical method?
Establishing these TWO types of validity leaves little doubt that you are measuring the construct you intend to measure.
What are convergent and divergent validity?
The primary cause of fraud in academia or academic settings.
What is the competitive nature of an academic career?
In order to use any of the probability sampling methods, the researcher must _____ the whole population and have _____ to it.
What are "know" and "access"?
The threat to internal validity for studies comparing one group over time.
What are time-related variables?
The result of qualitative research is most typically a _____ _____.
What is a narrative report?
The best method or option for operationally defining a variable (what to consult).
What is consult the previous research or previous research?
The two sets of people who have a right to expect honesty and respect from a researcher.
Who are the participants and those who will see and/or be influenced by the research?
According the chapter five, the goal of a research study is to
What is examine a sample and then generalize the results to a population or generalize to a population?
This helps a researcher decide between whether to strive for internal OR external validity in the research study.
What is purpose/goals/hypotheses of the study?