Issues in Research Design
Concepts, Operationalization, & Measurement
Concepts, Operationalization, & Measurement
Experimental Designs
WILD CARD
100
A specified expectation for empirical reality.
What is a hypothesis?
100
The process of conceptualization results in this.
What are indicators and dimensions?
100
Variables should be these 2 things.
What are exhaustive and mutually exclusive?
100
Experiments examine the effect of this type of variable.
What is an independent variable?
100
Gender is an example of this level of measurement.
What is nominal?
200
Units of analysis fall within what 4 categories?
What are individuals, groups, formal organizations, and social artifacts.
200
This measure, discussed in class, is the best count for crimes against businesses.
What is the UCR?
200
The NCVS utilizes this experimental design.
What is longitudinal panel?
200
This is the central feature of classical experiments.
What is randomization?
200
Logical sets of attributes.
What are variables?
300
A mode of causal reasoning that seeks detailed understanding of all factors that contribute to a particular phenomenon.
What is ideographic explanation?
300
What are Kaplan's (1964) 3 classes of things that scientists measure?
What are direct observables, indirect observables, and constructs?
300
The NIBRS utilizes this level of measurement.
What is incident?
300
An experimental method whereby neither participants nor the researchers know the composition of the experimental and control groups.
What is a double-blind experiment?
300
This type of study examines a specific population, unified by a common characteristic, as they change over time.
What is a longitudinal cohort?
400
What type of fallacy occurs when you erroneously draw conclusions based solely on the observations of groups?
What is an ecological fallacy?
400
_____ involves comparing measurements from different raters.
What is interrater reliability?
400
This level of measurement requires that measures are based on a true zero point.
What is ratio?
400
The detrimental threat of the influence of time on the outcome of an experiment
What is maturation?
400
Reasoning that uses the logical model in which principles are developed from specific observations.
What is inductive reasoning?
500
An approach to evaluation that studies "local causality" or how measures of effect are related to a specific situation.
What is scientific realism?
500
The degree to which a measure relates to other variables as expected within a system of theoretical relationships.
What is construct validity?
500
The degree to which a measure covers the range of meanings included within the concept.
What is content validity?
500
When someone's perceptions of the expectations of a treatment influences research findings.
What is the placebo effect?
500
The 3 components of classical experiments.
What are IV/DV, pre-test/post-test, experimental/control group?
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