Descriptive Research Methods
A researcher studying a person with narcolepsy, a rare sleeping disorder, may use this type of research method.
What is case study?
What is random sample?
Fill in gaps to create a complete, whole object.
You are in this group when you are not exposed to the treatment.
What is the control group?
Doing this ensures that each person has the same probability of being chosen for a study.
What is random sample?
People watching in a mall and focusing on a certain behavior is a form of this research method.
What is naturalistic observation?
A testable prediction that drives research.
What is a hypothesis?
Grouping nearby objects.
What is proximity?
You have been assigned to the experimentation group by chance.
What is random assignment?
The perception of a relationship when none exists.
What is illusory correlation?
This research method sometimes relies on self-reporting and can gather information from a diverse and large number of people.
What is survey?
A researcher is observing how many times the subjects smile. He will need a carefully worded statement of the exact procedures to identify "smile."
What is an operational definition?
We perceive smooth, continuous patterns rather than discontinuous ones.
What is continuity?
It answers the question, "what is the researcher measuring or looking for in this study?
What is the dependent variable?
Correlation does not mean this....
What is causation?
A measure of the extent to which two variables change together.
What is correlation?
In this type research, researchers repeatedly examine the same group of people to detect any changes that might occur over a long period of time.
What is longitudinal study?
Items that look the same are usually grouped together.
What is similarity?
This variable is changed in order to make the variable occur.
What is the independent variable?
A correlation of +1.00 is called this.
What is a perfect positive correlation?
This is the only research method that shows cause and effect.
What is experiment?
Data collection from many different individuals at a single point in time.
What is cross-sectional?
An organized whole.
What is gestalt?
All of those in a group being studied from which samples may be drawn.
What is population?
When there is no relationship between variables the strength is this number.
What is zero?