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100
a research method in which people respond to questions
What is a survey?
100
a group of people that represents a larger population
What is a sample?
100
a group of people with certain specified characteristics
What are populations?
100
a written set of questions to be answered by a research participant
What is a questionnaire?
100
a survey method in which a trained researcher asks questions & records the answers
What is interview?
200
a sample that accurately reflects the characteristics of the population as a whole
What is a representative sample?
200
questions a person must answer by choosing from a limited, predetermined set of answers. Eg. Multiple choice
What are close-ended?
200
questions a person is to answer in his or her own words
What open-ended questions?
200
using precollected information for data collection & research purposes
What is secondary analysis?
200
research that takes place in a natural (non laboratory) setting
What is field research?
300
intensive study of a group, incident or community
What is case study?
300
a case study where the researcher becomes a member of the group being studied
What is participant observation?
300
the belief that events occur in predictable ways & that one event leads to another
What is causation?
300
the belief that an event occurs as a result of several factors working in combination
What is mulitple causation?
300
a characteristic that is subject to change. - eg. – age
What is variable?
400
a characteristic that can be measured numerically
What is quantitative variable?
400
a characteristic that is defined by its absence in a category
What is qualitative variable
400
a characteristic that causes something to occur
What is an independent variable?
400
a characteristic that reflects a change
What is a dependent variable?
400
changes in the relationship between an independent and a dependent variable
What is an intervening variable?
500
a measure of the relationship between 2 variables
What is correlation?
500
A ___________ exists if both the independent & dependent variable change in the same direction
What is a positive correlation?
500
A ____________ occurs when the variables occur in opposite directions
What is negative correlation?
500
the recognition & formulation of a problem, the collection of data through observation & experiment & the formulation & testing of hypotheses
What is scientific method?
500
a testable statement of relationships among variables
What is a hypothesis?
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