Introduction to Research
Basic Research Designs
Strengths and Limitations of Designs
Research Ideas and Hypotheses
Ethics
100
This is a word for information based on a systematic collection of data.
What is empirical?
100
Two of the three basic research designs used in behavioral research.
What is observational, correlational, and/or experimental?
100
This research design shows relationships but cannot draw causal conclusions.
What is correlational research?
100
Getting research ideas from your own observations.
What is the inductive method?
100
The form research participants sign that acknowledges they are freely choosing to participate in a study.
What is informed consent?
200
People are relying on this when they believe research results are common sense and not worthy of study
What is intuition?
200
A type of descriptive research in which an example is watching animals in their natural habitat.
What is naturalistic observation?
200
One limitation of this research is that it provides "static" pictures of phenomena.
What is descriptive research?
200
When formulating experimental research hypotheses, this variable is identified as being the manipulated variable.
What is the independent variable?
200

This ensures that research subjects can stop participating in a study whenever they want.

What is the right to discontinue?

300
This is what data are when they are free from personal bias or emotions of the scientist.
What is objective?
300
This is defined as any attribute that can assume different values among different people or across different times or places.
What is a variable?
300
One advantage of this research design is that there is equivalence between groups before data are collected.
What is experimental research?
300
This is the method used when one uses a theory to generate research ideas.
What is the deductive method?
300

This ensures that researchers don't share personal information about their research subjects.

What is confidentiality?

400
These are personal statements/ beliefs that cannot be proven or disproven.
What are values?
400
This is descriptive research that is focused on observing and describing events as they occur, and capturing in words the richness of everyday behavior.
What is qualitative research?
400
That certain phenomena cannot be studied via manipulations is a disadvantage of this research design.
What is experimental research?
400
Good theories are this when variables can be adequately measured, and relationships between these variables can be shown to be incorrect.
What is falsifiable?
400
This may be needed in a study to get participants to act naturally when studying social phenomena.
What is deception?
500

This unethical experiment at at college tried to measure the psychological effects of being in or working in a jail.

Stanford Prison Experiment

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