As the independent variable increases, the dependent variable decreases. These two variables are negatively...
What is correlated?
100
Assesses changes in behavior in one group of subjects at more than one point in time.
What is longitudinal design?
100
The outcome variable of research that is observed for effects.
What is dependent variable?
100
A researcher wants to study the personalities of female belly dancers. They go to the female dancers' union meeting and requests that members participate in the study. Only 50% agree to take part.
What is selection bias?
100
Introduction, methods, results, discussion, and references.
What is part of a research paper?
200
The teacher is told that their students have a low IQ level and treats them according to that belief.
What is expectancy effect?
200
Used to determine relationships between two or more relationships. Uses statistical procedures such as t-tests, analysis of variance, or regression.
What is quantitative?
200
Journal articles reporting original research, professional conference proceedings, scholarly books.
What is primary source?
200
A researcher wants to study the effect of two different diets on the school behavior of hyperactive children. Without the researcher's knowledge, some of the parents of the children in the experimental group have contacted their child's teacher, and together they have started an at-home program to reduce troublesome school behaviors.
What is history?
200
Examines phenomena within cultural and social context in which it takes place. Hypothesis generated after data is collected and emerges from data. Researchers are looking for patterns in data.
What is qualitative?
300
The average score of ninth graders is different from the average score of twelfth graders on the ABC memory test.
What is non-directional hypothesis?
300
This is a true experiment, least faulty. It has independent variables, dependent variable, pretest, posttest, experimental group, control group, and is randomly assigned.
What is classical experiment?
300
In order to measure my dependent variable, each day I will answer the question, ‘How satisfied and confident did I feel today?’ In order to answer that question, I will rate myself on a scale from 1 (=not at all satisfied) to 10 (=perfectly satisfied).
What is operational definition?
300
A researcher is studying the effects of a year-long training program on increasing the strength of school-age children. At the end of the program, the researcher evaluates the children's strength and finds that the average strength score has increased over the year's time.
What is maturation?
300
The article "A Study of Predictors of Happiness" is an example of...
What is basic research?
400
To find out how many authors have cited a particular article in the years since it was published, you would consult...
What is social citation index?
400
When groups are pre-assigned to “treatments,” such as gender, social class, and neighborhood. Also known as post hoc research.
What is quasi-experimental research?
400
The average score of twelfth graders is greater than the average score of ninth graders on the ABC memory test.
What is directional hypothesis?
400
Fourty-five percent of Dr. Nelson's sample (who took the pretest) did not take the post-test after the family therapy intervention.
What is mortality?
400
A researcher is studying the sleeping patterns of 30 year old's, 40 year old's, and 50 year old's in the year of 2014.
What is the cross-sectional method?
500
A researcher is doing an experiment on the ability to recall information. However, the material is easy, kindergarten level and everyone one does well.
What is ceiling effect?
500
Expensive, rules out the cohort effect, includes more than one time point, and begins sampling at more than one time.
What is sequential design?
500
Data associated with a certain event which has been stored under conditions where they are maintained, preserved, and made accessible to researchers. Previously collected and transcribed by someone else.
What is archival analysis?
500
Kami, a junior, took the ACT and scored a 26. A few months later when she was a senior, she took the ACT again and scored a 30.
What is statistical regression?
500
Researchers critique theories and methodologies of previous research.