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11 Cards in this Set
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Ethics |
Ethics are norms or standards of behavior that guide moral choices about our behavior and our relationships with others. |
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Concept |
A concept is a generally accepted collection of meanings or characteristics associated with certain events, objects, conditions, situations, and behaviors |
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Construct |
A construct is an image or abstract idea specifically invented for a given research and/or theory-building purpose |
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Operational definition |
An operational definition is a definition stated in terms of specific criteria for measurement and testing |
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Independent variable |
An independent variable (IV) is manipulated by the researcher, and the manipulation causes an effect on the dependent variable |
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Proposition |
A proposition as a statement about observable phenomena (concepts) that may be judged as true or false. |
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Hypothesis |
A hypothesis is a declarative statement about the relationship between two or more variables; it has a tentative and conjectural nature |
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Theory |
A theory is a set of systematically interrelated concepts, definitions, and propositions that are advanced to explain and predict phenomena (facts). |
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Model |
A model is a representation of a system that is constructed to study some aspect of that system or the system as a whole. |
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Empiricism |
Empiricism denotes observations and propositions based on sensory experience and/or derived from such experience by methods of inductive logic, including mathematics and statistics. |
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Deduction |
Deduction is a form of argument that purports to be conclusive—the conclusion must necessarily follow from the reasons given |
