Research Methods
This research method used multiple other studies as its source.
What is a meta analysis?
The % of people 1 standard deviation above the average.
What is 34%?
The participants in the study are diverse across race, income levels, and gender.
The study is _______.
What is Generalizable?
IRB.
What is the Institutional Review Board?
The bias of fitting in.
What is Social desirability Bias?
This research method often only has one subject of interest.
What is a case study?
1, 4, 5, 69, 19, 0, 2, 56, 67, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 55, 6, 18, 19, 20, 14, 15, 18, 20, 81, 104
The Median
What is 20?
The process of reproducing a study.
What is Replication?
Guy Person is asked to participate in an experiment but is not told the details of the experiment.
The ethical guideline broken.
What is debriefing?
The bias of knowing something would happen, after it happened.
What is Hindsight Bias?
Jameson Mott wishes to find the relationship between his grades and his brain usage.
The research method Mr. Mott used.
What is a correlational study?
The correlational coefficient between Jameson getting questions right and games played is 0.02.
The correlational coefficient of Samuel Dunne's absences and his grade is -0.05.
The correlational coefficient of Jameson's gabbs and Thomas's "upset" thoughts is 0.89.
The correlational coefficient of our questions and times Ms. Gladstein gets mad at us is 0.78.
The correlational coefficient of Belal's phone usage and hours slept is -0.91.
The strongest correlational coefficient.
What is -0.91.
A treatment that appears to be real, but doesn't do anything.
What is Placebo?
Eduardo wishes to experiment on the effectiveness of a drug on adults. He uses a placebo for the control and the drug for the experimental group.
Prior to the experiment, patients must give ______.
What is Informed Consent?
The tendancy to believe more than what you are capable of.
What is Overconfidence?
Johnny Science went to a school and studied the movement of students throughout the school to determine which hallway was used most by which students.
The research method Mr. Science used.
What is a Naturalistic Observation?
Mirabelle took the SAT recently and scored a 1580. On Collegeboard on their site lists Miabelle as only doing worse than 3% of students.
Mirabelle's percentile rank.
What is 97%
The measure of how accurately a study measures what it claims.
What is Validity?
Javier created a questionnaire online for people to answer about drug use. After the questionnaire was completed, the results were posted to the website and included the questions answered as well as the participants' names.
The ethical guideline broken.
What is confidentiality?
When people favor evidence that supports their argument.
What is Confirmation Bias?
Tabiatha was conducting a study trying to find a relationship between video games played and books read over the course of a week. Tabiatha collected her data from various other researchers and came to a conclusion that the more games you played, the fewer books you read.
The research method Tabiatha used.
What is a Meta Analysis?
Minerva is conducting an experiment to see if playing chess leads to higher scores on standardized high school tests (SAT and ACT). Minerva randomly selects and assigns participants into a non-chess group and a chess-playing group. She has each group go 5 weeks (either normally w/out chess or playing at least 10 chess games per day) and then take a standardized high school test. She does not check to see if any participants have played chess their entire lives or are currently in high school.
_____________ is the issue with the experiment above.
What is the Third Variable Problem?
also acceptable:
What is a confounding variable?
Devon is trying to find the relationship between academic performance and depression. He enlists 1000 students from GooberTown High from all grade levels. Over the course of a quarter, students will be given a 15-question questionnaire about depression using a 5-point Likert scale then, at the end of the quarter, students will take a test on various subjects.
What is the operational definition of academic performance.
The operational definition of academic performance is the end of quarter test.
Jakob gathered teens for a study on sports played to eating habits. The teens were debriefed and they gave their consent but never told their parents.
The ethical guideline broken.
What is Informed Assent?
When a study's findings are influenced by the hypothesis due to a researcher's bias.
What is Experimentor bias?