This research method is the first method used when beginning an original research project.
What is Library/Documentary Research?
100
Participants in a research sample are also known as this.
What are respondents?
100
This research method is used to study how people act in different situations.
What is observational research?
100
This is the blueprint for each experimental study.
What is experimental design.
100
This is also known as reception analysis.
What is textual analysis.
200
Rogers and Farace's Relational Control Coding Scheme and Bales' Interaction Process Analysis are two well-known types of this analysis.
What is Interaction Analysis?
200
These are a descriptive form of survey research used to learn about the attitudes and opinions of certain groups.
What are polls?
200
This is the study of behavioral interactions among large numbers of people.
What is network analysis?
200
This is the type of experiment that one would perform if they wanted to test a single question or situation.
What is a one-shot case study.
200
Interaction analysis provides mainly this type of data.
What is quantitative data
300
This critical/cultural approach explores how media help foster hegemony and maintain societal power structures.
What is Marxist Criticism?
300
This method of collecting data is best used when gathering personal or sensitive information.
What is a self-administered survey?
300
In contrast to the method of ethnography, researchers use this method when they want to study communication in a natural setting but do not want to become participants.
What is unobtrusive observation?
300
This is the name of a seperate group in a study that does not complete the same actions as the other participants.
What is a control group.
300
This is the procedure that helps researchers identify themes and relevant issues.
What is content analysis.
400
This archive of statistical social science data can be used by students and faculty of member institutions for secondary data analysis.
What is the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)?
400
This is the key to successful focus groups.
What is a controlled group discussion?
400
Jeff got a temporary job at a big company in order to see how the company ran from the inside. This is an example of what kind of research?
What is participant observation.
400
These are the two main differences between experimental research and observational research.
What is controlling the environment and manipulating behavior.
400
This is what a researcher would use in order to analyze the language and symbols in emails between workers in an office.
What is a fantasy theme analysis
500
These types of studies can be regional, institutional, biographical, movement-or-idea-oriented or editorial in nature.
What are Historical Studies?
500
Like A.C. Nielson, this company also conducts ratings research?
What is Arbitron?
500
Observational research can be classified into these two main categories of research based on the location of the research.
What is laboratory and nonlaboratory(or field) research.
500
This is the experimental design that a big company would use if they were putting their employees through an efficiency program.
What is Pretest-Posttest Control-Group Design.
500
These are the two most well known types of interaction analysis.
What are Rogers and Farace’s Relational Control Coding Scheme and Bates’ Interaction Process Analysis.