Vocab
The recognition and formulation of a problem, the collection of data through observation and experiment, and the formulation and testing of the hypotheses.
What is the Scientific Method?
Testable statement of relationships among variables.
What is Hypothesis?
Using precollected data for research purposes.
What is secondary analysis?
What is qualitative?
Sociologists need to be this when conducting research.
What is ethical?
A characteristic that is subject to change.
What is a variable?
A characteristic that causes something to occur.
What is an independent variable?
What is population?
What is causation?
Once the data has been collected it needs to be looked over. This step of the scientific method.
What is analyze data?
A measure of the relationship between two variables.
What is correlation?
What is an intervening variable?
Group of people that represent the population.
What is a sample?
In this the variables change in the opposite direction.
What is negative correlation?
Researchers begin by choosing a topic of study.
What is identify problem?
A characteristic that reflects a change.
What is a dependent variable?
Research that takes place in a natural setting.
What is field research?
True/false and multiple choice questions are examples of this.
What are closed-ended questions?
A relationship between two variables that is actually caused by a third factor.
What is spurious correlation?
What is Develop Research Design?
A cases study where the researcher becomes a member of the group being studied.
What is participant observation?
Research method in which people respond to questions.
What is a survey?
Intense study of a single group, incident, or community.
What is a case study?
There are three standards for showing this.
What is Causation?
Retrieving the information from research.