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Components
By the Numbers
Odds n Ends
100
Collection of research articles directly reporting detailed research results
What are Journals?
100
Most powerful of all research methods
What is the Experimental method?
100
Manipulated variable in an experiment
What is the Independent variable?
100
Indicates the magnitude and relationship between two variables.
What is the Correlation coefficient?
100
Technique to ensure subjects in a study are representative of the larger population of interest
What is a Random sample?
200
Collection of articles written by professional writers for practitioners
What are Trade magazines?
200
Research setting with limited control over extraneous variables not of interest to a researcher
What is Field research?
200
People who do not receive the treatment in a research study
What is the Control group?
200
Statistical method of reaching conclusions based on the review of all available research
What is Meta-analysis?
200
Educated prediction about an answer to a question e.g., I predict that student retention is lower when it is hot during lectures.
What is a Hypothesis?
300
Investigation and summary of the research already conducted on a given topic
What are Literature reviews?
300
Method of conducting research that involves asking people their opinions
What are surveys?
300
Measure of behavior that is expected to change due to changes in another variable
What is the Dependent variable?
300
Indicates how many standard deviations separate the mean scores of experimental and control groups
What is the Difference score?
300
When subjects participate in studies of their own free will
What is Informed consent?
400
Extent to which research results hold true outside the specific setting where obtained
What is Generalizability? (external validity accepted)
400
Study that makes use of previously collected data
What is Archival research?
400
People who receive the treatment in a research study
What is the Experimental group?
400
Outcome of a meta analysis
What is the Mean effect size?
400
Alteration of a variable by an experimenter anticipating a change in the dependent variable
What is Manipulation?
500
Collection of articles written by professors about a topic of interest to practitioners e.g., HBR
What are Bridge publications?
500
Type of research conducted when controlled research setting is not possible
What are Quasi-experiments?
500
Third factor that accounts for the relationship between two variables.
What is the Intervening variable?
500
Extent to which the results of a study have a meaningful impact
What is Practical significance?
500
Systematic set of assumptions regarding the cause and nature of behavior e.g., Opposites attract
What is a theory?