Types of Methods
A method using questionnaires or interviews to gather data
What is survey research?
A testable statement about a relationship between variables.
What is a hypothesis?
The process of getting permission by informing participants of all risks.
What is informed consent?
A subset of a population used in a study.
What is a sample?
What is Tiktok?
A method involving immersive observation in a group's natural setting.
What is ethnography?
Defining variables so they can be measured.
What is operationalization?
Protecting participants person information.
What is confidentiality?
A sampling method where each person has an equal chance of selection.
What is random sampling?
True or False: Correlation equals causation.
What is False?
A method testing a hypothesis by manipulating variables.
What is an experiment?
The extent to which a study measures what it intends to.
What is validity?
A committee that reviews research for ethical concerns.
What is IRB (Institutional Review Board)?
A method ensuring subgroups are proportionally represented.
What is stratified sampling?
This reality TV show has been analyzed for group behavior, social roles, and alliances.
What is Survivor (or Big Brother)?
Studying cultural products like media, books, or speeches.
What is content analysis?
The consistency of a measurement or result.
What is reliability?
A study that failed ethical standards by causing harm or deception.
What is Stanford Prison Experiment (Milgram or Tusgekee)?
A group exposed to the independent variable, used for comparison.
What is a control group?
In a prank experiment, researchers tested whether people would stop on a busy street just because others did. What is this called?
What is conformity?
In-depth studying of person, group, or event.
What is a case study?
The extent to which findings can be applied to a larger population.
What is generalizability?
A report that outlines ethical principles for human research.
What is the Belmont report?
When people change their behavior because they know they are being studied.
What is Hawthorne Effect?
In 1973, researchers walked into psychiatric hospitals claiming to hear voices. This famous study questioned the validity of psychiatric diagnosis.
What is the Rosenhan Experiment?