What is make sure human participants are protected in research studies?
100
Categorical data is also known as:
What is Discrete Data?
100
In a cause-and-effect relationship, the variable that is presume to be the cause
What is an independent variable?
100
The type of research that employs interpretive questions
What is qualitative research?
100
The type of hypothesis that explains and predicts that relationship between two variables
What is a directional hypothesis?
200
When only the researcher knows the participants' identities
What is confidentiality?
200
Levels of measurement including ordinal, interval and ratio.
What is continuous level variables?
200
A variable that describes a participant's age, race, gender, social class, employment status, among other factors
What is a demographic variable or categorical?
200
Uses what we know and largely accepted rules or laws to persuade
What is Deductive Reasoning
200
A hypothesis that two variables are not related
What is a null hypothesis?
300
Institution responsible for approving the ethical concerns of the study.
What is the IRB
300
The degree to which results of an experiment can be applied to real-life situations.
What is External Validity?
300
In a cause-and-effect study, the variable that is presumed to be the effect
What is dependent variable?
300
The type of research that employs the careful measurement of variables
What is quantitative research?
300
A type of hypothesis that predicts there will be change in a dependent variable, but does not specify whether the change will be positive or negative
What is non-directional hypothesis?
400
This must happen in circumstances under which deception is used in research
What is debriefing?
400
Is what you are measuring being measured?
What is validity?
400
Presented in Research Questions and Hypothesis
What is a variable?
400
The first step in the research process
What is problem identification and specification?
400
The variable "program completed" in this hypothesis: Clients who complete job training Program A will have greater success in finding employment than clients who complete Program B. (hint: it's either the independent or dependent variable.)
What is an independent variable?
500
The three ethical principles outlined by the Belmont Report
What are respect for persons, beneficence, and justice?
500
Does your measurements yield consistent results?
What is Reliability?
500
Playing violent video games causes individuals to be violent in reality. Name the Dependent variable.
What is violence in reality?
500
Making conclusions based on patterns you observe.
What is Inductive Reasoning?
500
The direction of this hypothesis: The more knowledge social workers have about AIDS, the more comfortable they are in helping people with AIDS.