Basic Research
Using the _______, you observe, formulate a hypothesis, test, draw conclusions, and evaluate conclusions.
What is the Scientific Method?
With research, the goal is to _______________.
What is to support or refute the hypothesis?
This research seeks to understand a variable through interviews, case studies, etc.
What is qualitative research?
This type of research follows participants for a period of years.
What is longitude?
The variable that the experimenter changes to see
what its effects are.
What is an independent variable?
In testing, the extent to which a test measures what it is intended to measure.
What is validity?
Something to be measured and altered.
What is a variable?
When doing research, different studies that agree do this.
What is supports the previous study?
This research looks to describe the variable to understand it fully.
What is descriptive research?
A sample that gives every member of the population an equal chance of being selected.
What is a random sample?
The factor that can change in response to changes in the independent variable.
What is a dependent variable?
The degree to which an experimental design actually reflects the real-world issues it is supposed to address.
What is external validity?
A broad idea that attempts to explain some observed phenomenon.
What is a theory?
The process in which a scientist attempts to reproduce a study to see if the same results emerge
What is to replicate?
This research involves controlling variables to establish a cause and effect between them.
What is experimental research?
The entire group about which the researcher wants to draw conclusions.
What is the population?
Those who are exposed to the change that the independent variable represents.
What is the experimental group in a research study?
The degree to which changes in a dependent variable are from manipulating an independent variable.
What is internal validity?
This is a testable prediction that is derived logically from a theory.
What is a hypothesis?
When a theory is supported, it can still be ____________.
What is revised?
What is quasi-experimental research?
The subset of the population was chosen by the investigator for the study.
What is a sample?
Provides a comparison against which the researcher can test the effects of the independent variable.
What is a control group in research?
A measure was used to gauge interest in Greek life at Standford university, so using it at Eastern Oklahoma State College would be ______.
What is poor external validity?
Provides an objective description of how a variable will be measured and observed.
What is an operational definition?
The research community constantly _____________ decisions about hypotheses.
What is the question?
This type of research found there was a relationship between ice cream and sexual assault.
What is correlational research?
This involves observing behavior in a real-world setting of participants.
What is natural observation?
Participants are assigned to groups by chance.
What is random assignment?
A study that does not use random assignment may have poor ______.
What is internal validity?
All the information (often in number form) researchers collect in a study.
What is data?
This drives people to study specific variables.
What is previous research in the field?
This is the only type of research that can support a cause and effect between variables.
What is experimental research?
Participants should be given.
What are informed consent, confidentiality, debriefing, and deception?
When participants’ expectations produce an experimental outcome.
What is the placebo effect?
Researcher bias leads to _________.
What are concerns with internal validity?