Elements of Research Design
Statements about the supposed relationships between or among variables
What are Hypotheses?
Analysis of things in action
What is a Case Study?
What is a Normal Distribution?
The study of behavior and mental processes
What is Psychology?
In the experimental method, the variable that is manipulated by the researcher
What is an Independent Variable?
The accuracy of inferences drawn from a measurement
What is Validity?
A method that can assess the association strength and direction between an X and Y variable
What is a Correlational study?
It's aspects include mean, median and mode
What is Central Tendency and Variability?
The branch of psychology that is concerned with the study of behavior in work settings and the application of psychology principles to change work behavior
What is Industrial/Org Pysch?
The unbiased approach to observation and interpretations of behavior
What is Objectivity?
A research participant is fully informed of the nature of the experiment and has the right to not participate
What is Informed Consent?
Examines the relationship between a specific outcome variable and numerous predictors
What is a Multiple Regression model?
What is a p-value?
What are: change in nature of work, expanded nature of human resources and increasing diversity and globalization of the workforce, increasing relevance(of Org Psych)?
Measurement methods relying on research participants' reports of their own behavior or attitudes
What are Self-Report Techniques?
The extent to which extraneous or confounding variables are removed
What is Internal Validity?
A research design that can be used to infer causality
What is Experimental Design
Increases in strength as it grows further from zero
What is correlation?
A study on lighting and its effect on workers' productivity.
What did Mayo explore in the years following WW2 that affected work group productivity?
Procedures in which work tasks are broken down into simple component movements and the movements timed to develop a more efficient method for performing the tasks
What are time-and-motion studies?
Clearly defining a research variable so that it can be measured
What is Operationalization?
A research design where groups are determined by existing characteristics
What is a Quasi-Experimental design?
A type of inferential statistic used to determine if there is a significant difference between two groups
What is a T-test?
The founder of the scientific management movement
Who is Frederick W. Taylor?
Changes in behavior occurring as a function of participants' knowledge that they are being observed and their expectations concerning their role as research participants
What is the Hawthorne Effect?