Research Designs
Statistics
Pot Luck
APA Format
Sampling
100
design in which investigators administer a survey or questionnaire to a sample or to the entire population of people to describe the attitudes, opinions, behaviors, or characteristics of the population
What is survey research?
100
the type of statistics that indicate general tendencies in the data (mean, mode, median), the spread of scores (variance, standard deviation, and range), or a comparison of how one score relates to all others (z score, percentile rank)
What is descriptive statistics?
100
an attribute or characteristic that is influenced by the independent variable
What is a dependent variable?
100
American Psychological Association (APA) format
What is the standard format in which research papers are written?
100
A sampling method in which the researcher selects participants because they are willing and available to be studied
What is convenience sampling?
200
design in which investigators use a correlation statistical technique to describe and measure the degree of association (or relationship) between two or more variables or sets of scores
What is correlational research?
200
the type of statistics in which we analyze data from a sample to draw conclusions about an unknown population
What is inferential statistics?
200
an attribute or characteristic that influences or affects an outcome or dependent variable
What is an independent variable?
200
a brief, comprehensive summary of the contents of a research article that allows readers to survey the contents of the article quickly
What is an abstract?
200
A rigorous form of probability sampling in which all participants have an equal probability of being selected from the population
What is simple random sampling?
300
procedures for collecting, analyzing, and mixing both quantitative and qualitative methods in a single study or a series of studies to understand a research problem
What is mixed methods research?
300
the total of a set of scores divided by the number of the scores
What is the mean?
300
this occurs when the null hypothesis is rejected by the researcher when it is actually true; the probability of this occurrence is called alpha
What is a type I error?
300
section of a research article that provides a list of resources used throughout the research and cited in the article
What is a reference list?
300
A sampling method in which researcher selects individuals because they are available, convenient, and represent some characteristic the investigator seeks to study
What is nonprobability sampling?
400
qualitative procedures in which researchers describe the lives of individuals, collect and tell stories about these individuals' lives, adn write narratives about their experiences
What is narrative research?
400
the term given to the score that appears most frequently in a list of scores
What is the mode?
400
this occurs when the researcher fails to reject the null hypothesis when an effect actually occurs in the population; the probability of this occurrence is called beta
What is a type II error?
400
the practice of claiming credit for the words, ideas, and concepts of others
What is plagiarism?
400
A sampling method in which researchers obtain participants through asking participants to identify others to become members of the sample
What is snowball sampling?
500
qualitative procedures for describing, analyzing, and interpreting a cultural group's shared patterns of behavior, beliefs, and language that develop over time
What is an ethnographic design (or ethnographic research)?
500
the square root of the variance
What is the standard deviation?
500
this is equal to the raw score minus the mean then divided by the standard deviation
What is the z score?
500
a unique alphanumeric string assigned by a registration agency to identify content and provide a persistent link to its location on the Internet
What is the digital object identifier (DOI)?
500
A sampling method in which researchers divide the population on some specific characteristic and then, using simple random sampling, sample from each subgroup of the population
What is stratified sampling?
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