Methods
________ is the view that using logic and reason is the way to understand how the world works.
What is rationalism?
________ is defined as the procedures, consisting of five basic processes, by which scientists conduct research.
What is scientific method?
In ________, a researcher makes no prediction and does not try to control any of the variables.
What is descriptive designs?
Replication of a study is important to
Confirm the results of the study
The major limitations of the correlational approach is that it
does not establish whether one variable actually causes the other
________ entails collecting observations, or data, from the real world and evaluating whether the data support our ideas or not.
What is science?
In the fourth step of the scientific method, scientists use mathematical techniques to ________ the results and determine whether they are significant and whether they closely fit the prediction.
What is interpret?
A subset of a population is called a ________.
What is sample?
A theory is defined as a ________.
What is set of related assumptions from which testable predictions can be made?
Correlational coefficients tell us whether two variables (e.g. X and Y) relate to each other and that they range between -1.00 and +1.00 coefficients near 0.00 are an indication of
the lack of any relationship between variables X and Y
The ________ sciences study humans, both as individuals and as groups.
What is social?
The last process of the scientific method is to ________.
What is communicate?
The design chosen for a given study depends on the ________.
What is question being asked?
To ________ a hypothesis, scientists select one of a number of established research methods, along with the appropriate measurement techniques.
________ indicate whether two variables relate to each other and the direction of the relationship.
What are correlational coefficients?
Which of the following sciences studies the world of things—the inanimate world of stars, light, waves, atoms, the Earth, compounds, and molecules?
What are physical sciences?
The first basic process of the scientific method.
What is observe?
A variable can be defined as ________.
What is anything that changes, or differs, within or between individuals?
A ________ is a specific, informed, and testable prediction of what kind of outcome should occur under a particular condition.
What is hypothesis?
Correlation approaches +1.00 or −1.00.
What is increases the strength of the relationship?
________ is a branch of physical science.
What is geology?
In the ________ and ________ stages of the scientific method, researchers express their expectations as a theory.
What is observation and prediction?
Which statement best describes the term descriptive designs?
What are study designs in which a researcher defines a problem and variable of interest but makes no prediction and does not control or manipulate anything?
According to the author, the first attitude of science is ________.
What is questioning authority?
When interpreting correlations, it is important to remember that _____
Correlation does not mean there is a causal relationship between the two variables or correlation does not equal causation.