College Majors
Ways of Knowing
Research Process
Common Terms
Miscellaneous
100
This major focuses on the scientific study of behavior & mental processes)
What is psychology?
100
In this way of knowing, something is held to be true because a noted person states it to be true.
What is authority?
100
This is the first step in the research process.
What is select a topic?
100
This term refers to the study of human and animal behavior.
What is behavioral science?
100
A visual representation of your research project that includes a brief narrative, charts, graphs, and perhaps photos.
What is a research poster?
200
In order to do clinical work in this field, students will need to complete an MSW.
What is Social Work?
200
These beliefes are thought to be true because of reasoning.
What is logic?
200
Random, purposive, convenience, and snowball are four methods of doing this.
What is selecting a research sample?
200
Term that refers to the psychological well being of a person.
What is a mental health?
200
This event provides an opportunity for you to present the results of your research findings at the end of the summer.
What is a Research Symposium?
300
This major focuses on mental health, substance abuse, and co-occurrring disorders.
What is Behavioral Healthcare?
300
This way of knowing includes tradition and folklore.
What is tenacity?
300
This is a statement of prediction of the outcome of your research project.
What is hypothesis?
300
The process of sampling your population by asking one participant to identify other participants.
What is snowball sampling?
300
A level of psychological well being in which people are able to use their abilities, cope with normal stresses, work productively, and contribute to the community.
What is mental health?
400
The focus of this major is on corrections, juvenile justice, probation, and parole.
What is Criminology?
400
A systematic investigation designed to develop new knowledge.
What is Research or Scientific Inquiry?
400
This term is used in research to describe information that may either be in numbers or words.
What is data?
400
All of the individuals who possess the characteristics you wish to generalize your findings to.
What is population?
500
Students in this program will become prepared to work in nursing homes with older people in need of care.
What is Long Term Care Administration?
500
The systematic collection and interpretation of materials written by others.
What is library research?
500
The last step of the research process...If you don't do this, it's as if you haven't even done the research.
What is dissemination?
500
The process by which each member of a population has an equal chance of being selected for a study.
What is random sampling?
500
Process by which other experts in the field critique your research papers before publication.
What is peer review?