For the following study, identify the dependent variable: Molly conducted a study where she tried to determine if people walked at a different speed when they had just finished eating compared to the time frame before the meal.
What is speed of walking?
100
Is qualitative research referred to as "closed systems" or "open systems" and why?
Open systems, because it allows more detailed information to be gathered that is not of a fixed type or limited in response options.
100
When someone is new to a particular research field, what is the best method to use for a literature search?
A bottom-up search
100
This concept is used so that subjective or conceptual elements of a research hypothesis are made into concrete, testable terms that can be oberseved, understood, agreed upon, and used by other researchers.
What is an operational definition?
200
This is an association between two related variables, wherein one variable decreases and the other variable also decreases.
What is a positive correlation?
200
What is stratified sampling?
This is when particular subpopulations within a population are identified for a specific experiment.
200
What kind of source analyzes research done by others?
What is a secondary source?
200
Knowledge that we directly experience is known as this.
What is empirical knowledge?
300
This is the main idea behind any research project based on the project's theory.
What is a hypothesis?
300
Why is "reactive observation" negative for a research study?
It could potentially affect the results of the study, because it means that the participants' behavior could have been altered merely by being obeserved by the experimenter.
300
What is the purpose of a bibliography?
To be able to locate key reference information used in your paper.
300
In a title page, how do you distinguish that two of the authors are from different departments in the same university?
You don't need to show this difference in the title page. The only thing that matters is the university they are from.
400
This term means that the effect of the independent variable becomes mixed up with the effect of antoher variable, one that is not under the researcher's conrol.
What is confounding?
400
The use of triangulation for a research project means using both of which measures?
What is qualitiative and quantitative measures?
400
What is the difference between paraphrasing and summarizing?
A summary is meant to cover the main points of an entire book or article, while a paraphrase is meant to cover the main points of a key section or sections.
400
This is another term for a haphazard sample.
What is a convenience sample?
500
A researcher observes participants eating peanuts while listening to music and concludes that music makes people hungry. This is an example of
What is inductive reasoning?
500
This is a branch of biology that uses naturalistic observation by studing the behavior of indiviudal animals or animal groups under natural conditions.
What is ethology?
500
What is the best section to read when you want to start evaluating the usefulness of an article?