A type of research that attempts to explain the relationships between variables.
What is Explanatory Research?
100
What a participant's identifying information can be considered when their name is removed from a questionnaire and is replaced with identification numbers so that only the researcher can later link a response to a participant's name.
What is confidential?
100
This is method for learning about a population by obtaining information from a subset of the population.
What is sampling?
100
What the following response format is called:
SA=strongly agree,
A=agree,
U=undecided,
D=disagree,
SD=strongly disagree
What is a Likert scale?
100
This study design can optimize your ability to understand how the attitudes of particular individuals change over time.
What is a panel study?
200
A type of research that draws a detailed picture of a population in terms variables (e.g., gender, age, income, residence, etc.)
What is descriptive research?
200
This procedure ensures voluntary participation and full understanding of the possible risks involved in a study.
What is informed consent?
200
This type of sampling involves starting at a random point, and then choosing every Kth element.
What is systematic sampling?
200
This is the level of measurement for letter grades given at the end of a school term.
What is ordinal?
200
This threat to internal validity involves participants not completing an experiment.
What is experimental mortality?
300
A supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something.
What is theory?
300
This group reviews the impact of research on participants, and must give consent before the research can be conducted?
What is an Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
300
This type of sampling could involve selecting 40% of type A participants, and 60% of type B participants.
What is quota sampling?
300
Selecting indicators to measure a concept.
What is operationalization?
300
Surveying CSUCI students at one point about their sense of community is an example of this design.
What is a cross-sectional design?
400
Beginning with a specific set of observations and using them to create a theory to explain what was observed.
What is an inductive approach to theory construction?
400
This level of privacy can be guaranteed to participants when a researcher cannot connect a response to a participant.
What is anonymity?
400
In this type of sampling, every element in the population has an equal chance of being included in the sample.
What is probability?
400
This is the type of measure in which one sums the responses to several survey questions that all measured the same concept.
What is an index?
400
A requirement for the classical experimental design is posttest measurement of this.
What is the dependent variable, in the experimental and control groups?
500
The idea that knowledge is based on observation made through one of the five senses rather than on belief or logic alone.
What is positivism?
500
This was the major ethical concern that plagued Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment.
What is harm to subjects?
500
If you wanted to ensure that participants of each attribute of a given characteristic were included in a sample, but you want to use a method of selecting them based on probability, you would use this sampling approach.
What is stratified sampling?
500
For inclusion into an index, two variables should have this type of relationship.
What is a strong bivariate relationship (correlation)?
500
When experimental and control groups communicate about the manipulation in an experiment.