Measurement
What type of research is used to answer questions of cause and effect?
What is an experiment?
______ research is expressed with numbers _______ research is expressed with words.
Quantitative/Qualitative
A set of propositions that attempts to specify the interrelationships among a set of concepts.
What is a theory?
This type of study is used to study a group of people over a long period of time.
What is a longitudinal study?
Correlation does NOT show this.
What is causation?
The consistency of a measure
What is reliability?
The relationship or connection between two or move variables.
What is a correlation?
This occurs when a researcher “steals” the ideas or writings of another or uses them without citing the source.
What is plagiarism?
An agreement by the participants stating they are willing to be in a study and that they know something about what the research will involve.
What is informed consent?
The group in a study that does not receive treatment.
What is the control group?
What is the mean, median, and mode of 2,3,2,1,2?
Mean- 2, Median-2 Mode-2
This type of study is usually an in-depth investigation of an individual or a small group of people.
What is a case study?
Sarah is doing an experiment on the effect of chocolate on mood. What is the independent and dependent variable?
Chocolate- independent
mood- dependent
This type of variable is the variable a researcher manipulates.
What is independent?
This occurs when participants believe they are receiving treatment but are actually a part of the control group.
What is placebo?
Subjects are selected because they are easily accessible. Easiest, cheapest, and less time consuming. (ex. classmates, family members, friends, etc.)
What is convenience sampling?
What type of research is used to answer questions of cause and effect?
What is an experiment?
Ensure all participants are listed, then choose a random number of participants. (ex. everyone comes in and signs their names beside a number, the researcher then randomly picks 10 participants.
What is simple random sampling?
A document that tells the researcher where variables are located in the data file and what numbers go with which variable attributes is called ___________.
What is a codebook.
When a researcher learns about secret, illicit, or illegal activities during the course of conducting field research, this is called ________________.
What is guilty knowledge?
List the levels of measurement
nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio
A research technique used to make replicable and valid inferences by interpreting and coding textual material. By systematically evaluating texts (e.g., documents, oral communication, and graphics), qualitative data can be converted into quantitative data.
What is content analysis?
A summary statistic that quantitatively describes or summarizes features of a collection of information, aims to summarize and give more information about the sample.
What is a descriptive statistic?
Why is deception used in many experiments and how should researchers act ethically when using it?
At times, especially in social and behavioral research, deception or incomplete disclosure is necessary to avoid study bias or to test a hypothesis that requires the participant’s misdirection. Make sure deception is absolutely necessary, Must do no harm and debrief
Identify one major case in the history of research ethics and describe the basic principle of ethical research they illustrate.
Milgram Study, Stanford Prison Experiment, Bad Blood study, Tea room study