How do you know?
Accepting the information in a professor's lecture without considering the credibility of the information exemplifies a belief in _____. This is an example of illogical reasoning.
What is authority? (Critical agreement with authority)
A research question stated in a way that can be tested; a prediction
What is a hypothesis?
Events or qualities that can assume more than one value; these are created when we operationalize concepts
What is a variable?
Guide behaviors and decisions through range of concerns, dilemmas, conflicts that arise over proper way to conduct a study
What is research ethics/Belmont Report?
To produce valid and objective knowledge
What is the goal of scientific research?
Scientific principle that it must be possible to make an observation that would show the hypothesis or theory is false and can be rejected; a requirement of a good theory
What is falsifiability?
A factor that is selected and manipulated or controlled by the experimenter; influences another phenomenon
What is an independent variable?
agreement by participants stating they are willing to be in a study after they learn something about what the procedure will involve
What is informed consent?
Measurement scale used for a person's person's credit score (300-850).
What is interval? (no absolute zero)
Early on, this can prevent confusion in the research process (clearly defining your concepts and explaining how they will be measured)
What is good conceptualization and operationalization
_____ is the process by which scientists with expertise in a particular field assess a study before it is published in a top-quality scientific journal. ?A. Applied research
What is peer review?
A person is studying the effect of consumption of alcohol on midterm grades. Midterm grades is the ___________
What is dependent variable?
Groups like juveniles and prisoners who require special protections.
What are special populations?
Exists when statements or conclusions about empirical reality are correct
What is validity
With this reasoning, we begin with data collection and observations, make empirical generalizations, and then develop a theory
What is inductive reasoning?
As once variable increases, the other variable increases.
What is a positive association?
Studies that prompted the Belmont Report
Measurement scale used to assess ratings of usefulness of this jeopardy review by students using a 5-point scale ranging from not useful at all to very useful
What is ordinal?
Knowledge based observations and/or experiment
What is empirical?
These are the 4 goals of behavioral science and research:
What is description, explanation, exploration, and evaluation
All of the specific aspects, characteristics, or components of a concept
What are dimensions?
The 3 guiding principles of the Belmont Report
What is respect for persons, beneficence, justice
When the conclusions of research are based on the interpretations of a narrative/text, _____ research has been employed. However, if the conclusions are based upon statistical analyses of the data, _____ research has been employed.
What is qualitative; quantitative?