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Vocabulary
Conducting Research
Surveys, Samples and Populations
Methods of Observation
Experiments and Ethics
100
The population that you are trying to study.
What is the TARGET POPULATION?
100
A method of confirming the results of a study.
What is REPLICATION?
100
A data collection method where participants answer a series of questions.
What is a SURVEY?
100
This type of study is usually an in-depth investigation of an individual or a small group of people. One example is Genie.
What is a CASE STUDY?
100
The variables that are manipulated.
What is the INDEPENDENT VARIABLES?
200
The group in a study that does not receive treatment.
What is The CONTROL GROUP?
200
This type of study is used to study a group of people over a long period of time.
What is a LONGITUDINAL STUDY?
200
A sample in which the participants are proportionate representatives of the population.
What is STRATIFIED SAMPLE?
200
This type of study is used to changes that occur over time, by using different groups of participants.
What is CROSS-SECTIONAL?
200
This type of experiment uses a control group and an experimental group.
What is a CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT?
300
A relation among variables.
What is a CORRELATION?
300
The third step in conducting research.
What is TESTING THE HYPOTHESIS?
300
The people more willing to participate in research are people who have an interest in the field. This exemplifies this type of bias.
What is VOLUNTEER BIAS?
300
This type of observation occurs in the participants home environment.
What is NATURALISTIC-OBSERVATION?
300
This occurs when participants believe they are receiving treatment but are actually a part of the control group.
What is the PLACEBO EFFECT?
400
A study where the participants do not know they are being studied.
What is a SINGLE-BLIND STUDY?
400
What type of research is used to answer questions of cause and effect?
What is an EXPERIMENT?
400
When doing this with the result, researchers must be careful about the population that their results apply to.
What is GENERALIZING THE RESULTS?
400
Name three of the six-types of observation.
What is TESTING METHOD, CASE-STUDY METHOD, LONGITUDINAL METHOD, CROSS-SECTIONAL METHOD, NATURALISTIC-OBSERVATION METHOD, LABORATORY-OBSERVATION
400
Double-blind studies are the best way to remove this
What is BIAS?
500
A predisposition to a certain view.
What is BIAS?
500
An experiment in which the researchers and the participants do not know which test group participants are in.
What is a DOUBLE BLIND STUDY?
500
This type of sampling is the easiest way to obtain participants to study.
What is RANDOM SAMPLING.
500
Correlation does NOT show this
What is CAUSE AND EFFECT RELATIONSHIP.
500
Participants right's to privacy are protected by...
What is CONFIDENTIALITY?