Expresses an abstract idea formed by summing up observations.
What is a concept question?
100
rule-based theory
What is the deontological theory?
100
process of examining every member in a population
What is a census?
100
method developed by demographers that is a study of specific populations as they change over time
What is a cohort analysis?
100
influence is subject's awareness of being observed has on their behavior
What is reactivity?
200
They are the most important ones that define the construct understudy.
What is a marker variable?
200
balancing theory
What is the teleological theory?
200
systematically selected respondents
What is a qualified sample?
200
to chart directions in panel data
What is a path analysis?
200
exposing the same subjects to multiple manipulations
What is a repeated-measure design?
300
Use them to ensure that results are due to only the independent variables.
What are control variables?
300
ethical system that weighs the potential benefits of a decision against potential harm
What is utilitarianism?
300
uses math guidelines whereby each units chance for selection is known and allows researchers to calculate the amount of sampling error present in study
What is probability sampling?
300
different people asked same question at different times
What are trend studies?
300
researchers must control these to ensure internal validity; they are extraneous and can contaminate findings
What are confounding variables?
400
a scale of measurement in which objects measured are ranked along some dimension
What is an ordinal level?
400
deliberately providing false information
What is a deception?
400
an approach used to get adequate representations of a subsample
What is stratified sampling?
400
data collected from representative sample at only one point in time
What is cross-sectional research?
400
construct events that enable them to manipulate independent variables
What is staged manipulation?
500
Represents a construct defined to describe a type of personality
What is authoritarianism?
500
people need to know enough about the project to make intelligent choices
What is informed consent?
500
select sample in groups or categories and it creates errors
What is a cluster?
500
respondent asked to recall facts/attitudes about education, events, jobs, etc. from the past and these factors are then compared with later measure of same variable
What is a retrospective panel?
500
explain purpose of experiment if there were manipulations