What is consisting of specifying an issue to study, developing a justification for studying it, and suggestion the importance of the study?
100
An attribute or characteristic that is dependent on or influenced by the independent variable.
What is a dependent variable?
100
The researcher randomly assigns participants to different conditions of the experimental variable.
What is a true experiment?
200
Collecting data
What is identifying and selecting individuals for a study, obtaining their permission to study them, and gathering information by asking people questions or observing their behaviors?
200
It is an attribute or characteristic that influences or affects an outcome or dependent variable.
What is an independent variable?
200
This includes assignments, but not random assignment of participants to groups.
What is a quasi-experiment?
300
Review the Literature
What is locating summaries, books, journals, and indexed publications on a topic?
300
Are new variables constructed by the researcher by taking one variable times another to determine the joint impact of both variables together.
What is moderating variable?
300
This represents a modification of the between-group design in which the researcher studies two or more categorical, independent variables, each examined at two or more levels.
What is a factorial design?
400
Specifying a Purpose for Research
What is identifying the major intent or objective for a study and narrowing it into specific research questions?
400
Is an attribute or characteristic that "stands between" the independent and dependent variables and exercises an influence on the dependent variable apart from the independent variable.
What is an intervening variable?
400
Consists of studying one group, over time, with multiple pretest and posttest measures or observations made by the researcher.
What is a time series?
500
Reporting and Evaluating Research
What involves deciding on audiences, structuring the report in a format acceptable to the audience, and then writing the report in a manner that is sensitive to all readers.
500
Are attributes or characteristics that the researcher cannot directly measure because their effects cannot be easily separated from those of other variables, even though they may influence the relation between the independent and the dependent variable.
What are confounding variables?
500
All participants in a single group participate in all experimental treatments, with each group becoming its own control.