Designs
Ethics
Research and science
Paradigms and approaches
The research Process
100

What is the research design in which subjects respond to questionaires and/or interviews.

Survey

100

In a study "teachers" were tricked into thinking they were applying electrical shocks to the "learners" when their responses were incorrect.  What ethical principle is broken.

Avoid harm

100

A relationship in which change in one variable results from change in another

Cause and effect

100

The research paradigm that suggests the scientific study of humans is possible using the methods and procedures of natural science

Positivism

100

This step refers to when you identify an issue or something you are curious about

Asking the question

200

Fieldwork by anthropologists is an example of this  type of research design

Observation

200

This principle requires the researcher to tell the participants what the research is about and what is expected of them.

Informed consent

200

This is a logical system that bases knowledge on direct systematic  observation

Science

200

This is the research paradigm which believes that society cannot be treated as a science

Interpretivism

200

This fourth step of the research process has to do with selecting data collection tools

Collecting relevant data

300

What is the research design in which the researcher uses data that has been collected by others

Existing sources

300

What is the term for the principle where the researcher must secure the information disclosed  and ensure it is used only for the purposes of research.

Confidentiality

300

A researcher should remain neutral  and allow the facts to speak for themselves, otherwise this could be called into question

Objectivity

300

The research approach that takes the form of statistics and numerical information

Quantitative research

300

This step requires phrasing an If...Then statement thereby narrowing the research topic

Formulating the hypothesis

400

The bystander effect is an example of which research design.

experiment

400

After the study is completed this step allows for questions or concerns to be raised to  the researcher.  

Debriefing

400

A relationship in which two or more variables change together

Correlation

400

This approach to research seeks in-depth explanation and is descriptive.

Qualitative

400

Finished collecting data? Got results to analyse?  Welcome to this 6th step in the process

Working with the hypothesis

500

Which sociologist linked the incidence of suicide to the degree of social integration of different categories of people

Emile Durkheim

500

In the Tuskegee Syphilis study participants were denied available treatments. Evenn when a cure was discovered participants were denied the cure.  what ethical principle is broken.

sharing benefits

voluntary participation

500

Scientific research often challenges what we accept as 

Common sense

500

When a researcher starts with a theory, then seeks observable patterns which may conform the hypothesis, which type of reasoning is being used?

Deductive

500

Will you accept, refute or amend your hypothesis; then you are this 7th step

Reconsidering the theory

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