General claims made by experts or religious figures.
What are Authoritative Pronouncements?
100
A prediction derived from a theory that can be tested.
What is a hypothesis?
100
Used for labeling variables only.
What is a nominal scale?
100
A small study to help determine whether a randomized/controlled study would be of value.
What is a pilot study?
100
An aspect that remains fixed and cannot explain any differences that are observed.
What is a constant?
200
A Latin term that indicates inductive reasoning, or "from what comes after." Final judgments are based on experience.
What is a posteriori reasoning?
200
A non-directional statement about specific relationships in a study that ends in a question mark.
What is a research question?
200
A scale of measurement of data which permits the comparison of differences of values; a scale having a fixed zero value.
What is a ratio scale?
200
Tests that compare the means of two groups to see if they are statistically different from one another.
What are t-tests?
200
Represented by a small 'p', this value shows the likelihood of something happening and provides a level of confidence.
What is probability?
300
When a reader focuses on scientific soundness of a study not on whether the findings conflict with preexisting beliefs, faith, or ideas about social acceptability.
What is Critical Reading?
300
A characteristic that can change, and is the basic unit of observation and measurement in a study.
What is a variable?
300
A scale on which data is shown simply in order of ranking since there is no standard of measurement of differences.
What is an ordinal scale?
300
Descriptive data that is harder to analyze due to its more subjective nature.
What is qualitative data?
300
A pseudo-scientific approach that bridged the gap between speculation and more rigorous scientific approaches.
What is introspectionism?
400
Anticipating what is to come in a study and discovering if expectations are met or not.
What is Interactive Reading?
400
The inspirational framework that guides the research.
What is a theory?
400
A Fahrenheit scale is an example of this.
What is an interval scale?
400
The use of companion animals in health care settings.
What is Animal-Assisted Therapy?
400
A furry, white, West Highland terrier who works at Children's Hospital San Diego.
Who is Lizzy? :)
500
a. Technical content, statement of problem, formulation of hypotheses.
b. The research
c. Interpretation and discussion of results
What are the three components of a research article?
500
The translation from an abstract concept into a concrete description of research procedures or measure that can be observed, recorded, and replicated.
What is operationalization?
500
The product of most scientific observations and experimentation.
What is a scale of measurement?
500
A scale often used in questionnaires that gathers subjective types of information that cannot be directly measured.
What is a visual analog scale?
500
Theory/idea, operationalization, research design, data collection, analysis, interpretation, conclusion.