Sampling
If I identify someone who fits the criteria for my study and then ask them to suggest three other potentially eligible people, which style of sampling am I using?
Snowball sampling
A design in which neither the researcher nor the participants know if they are in the experimental group or the control group is called ?
A double blind experiment
The number of people who are encountered by the researcher, whether or not they complete the study, is used to calculate the ?
Contact rate
Instead of interviewing one person at a time, I get together group of people and ask them questions in a discussion format, this is called a ?
Focus group
An experiment tests the effects of the _____ variable on the ______ variable.
independent variable on the dependent variable.
The term for samples selected in accord with probability theory.
Probability Sampling
Experiments minimize which type of validity (internal or external)?
An ethical issue where the researcher uses questions that are leading and may pursue someone to change their answer is an issue of?
Bias
This methodology is a bottom - up approach where the researcher first collects observations and then makes theories and conclusions from that data
Grounded theory
The stimulus in an experiment is the _____ variable?
Independent variable
If I decide I need to sample 40 females and 60 males, to match the 4,000 females and 6000 males in a University, which sampling technique am I using?
Quota sampling
Descriptive
The number of people who complete the study is used to calculate the ?
Response rate
Which method would be used if the researcher decides to spend a few months with a certain culture to better understand their behaviors and social norms?
Ethnography
Using the pre and post test design but no control group is called the?
One group pre-test post-test design
Two ways in which to improve the internal validity of an experiment are?
Have a control group as well as an experimental group, and/or use a pre and post - test.
If the experiment is found to not actually be accurately testing the intended variable, the experiment would LACK ?
internal validity
A summary description of a variable's findings in a survey is a ?
Statistic
In comparison to experiments and surveys, field research has
less reliability and greater validity
The paradigm that assumes there is an objective reality that can be observed and measured accurately.
Naturalism
The list of all potential participants from which the sample is drawn is the ?
sampling frame
In an experiment, the group that receives the stimulus/ intervention is the _____ group and the group that does not is the ______ group.
Experimental group ; control group
If I am interested in seeing if the color pen you use on your exam affects your exam grade, would this research be better for an experiment or survey?
Experiment
A type of field research where the researcher's role is to serve as a resource to the community being studied, provide access to information, and work with the subjects to to empower them, is called?
Participatory action research
Having an experimental group and a control group but no pre-test is a?
Static-group comparison