Research 1
What is an Experimental Group?
Systematic and objective investigation as carriedout by identifying a problem, stating a hypothesis or guiding question and collecting primary data.
What is research?
A type of self-report data about attitudes, behaviors, or characteristics.
What is a Survey?
An entire group of people a person is interested in studying.
What is a Population?
The small group of participants selected from a population.
What is a sample?
Derived from the Latin maxim primum non nocere, it establishes an obligation not to intentionally inflict unnecessary pain, suffering, or injury upon a patient or individual
What is non-maleficence?
a statistical assumption that there is no significant difference, relationship, or effect between two measured variables or groups
What is null hypothesis?
What is the Institutional Review Board (IRB)?
What is Sampling?
logical process that involves drawing specific conclusion based on general principles
What is deductive reasoning?
A variable that a researcher manipulates.
What is an Independent Variable?
The variable that we record the outcome of.
What is a Dependent Variable?
data wherein the key characteristics include a mean that is lower than the median, and a median that is lower than the mode
What is a negatively skewed data?
this pertains to the average of the sum of squares
What is variance?
What is a Control Group?
What is Participant Bias?
A set of concepts that explain a phenomenon or set of phenomena.
What is a Theory?
What is Experimenter Bias?
A sample that reflects the entirety of the population.
What is a Representative Sample?
When a researcher selects participants that are readily available.
What is Convenience Sampling?
Participants must consent to participating in research and be aware of what the research entails.
What is Informed Consent?
A definition of a variable that has specific terms of operation, procedures, or specific behaviors.
What is an Operational Definition?
research paradigm where reality is renegotiated, debated and interpreted, usually utilizes mixed methods
What is pragmatist?
The close examination of a relationship between two variables without any manipulation.
What is a Correlation?
A testable statement about the relationship between two variables - based on observations and prior research.
What is a Hypothesis?