Psychological and physical nature has this and, as a result, is not random or haphazard.
What is order?
100
Identify at least one way researchers who are employing an observational method record data of human behavior.
What is frequency, duration, and/or interval?
100
This word, when put between key words in a lit search, will lead to the most refined results.
What is AND?
200
Things that we know are true because they can be verified in the world by others.
What are facts?
200
The variable that is measured.
What is the dependent variable?
200
The idea that causes of events are knowable and therefore testable.
What is determinism?
200
This is a type of observational design done "in the field."
What is naturalistic observation?
200
This is one database OTHER than PsychArticles here at CSM that will find you social sciences journal articles
What is Academic Search Premier and/or Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection?
300
The accuracy of a test or observation.
What is validity?
300
Identify at least one way for selecting a topic for a research study.
What are read, observe, think about practical problems, look to own interests, and/or expand on previous ideas?
300
That simple explanations are preferred to complex ones is the law of this.
What is parsimony?
300
This research uses existing records to make observations.
What is archival research?
300
Landrum recommends this method for identifying key ideas from chosen references.
What is the notecard method?
400
Possible explanations for why things are the way they are.
What are theories?
400
The type of experimental design that has just one independent variable.
What is a one-way design?
400
This is the practice of relying on observation and experimentation to learn about a particular phenomenon.
What is empiricism?
400
This is the difference between naturalistic observation and a field-based study.
What is that there is a manipulation in a field-based study?
400
This is one person you could go to for help in conducting a quality literature search on the databases here at CSM.
What is the reference librarian and/or your own faculty?
500
The only type of research design to determine cause and effect.
What is an experiment?
500
The type of experimental design that has more than one independent variable.
What is a factorial design?
500
This is the difference between a hypothesis and a thesis of a research paper.
What is that a hypothesis is a stated prediction and comes after the literature review, whereas the thesis is a specific statement about the purpose/ideas of the paper and comes near the beginning of the paper?
500
When conducting a survey, it is important that your sample be this.
What is representative (and/or random)?
500
In "truncating" a search in PsychArticles, this is the symbol you place after the start of a word to get back all references that include that start of the word.