Research Methods

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Seeks to determine what the legitimate sources of knowledge are.

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Epistemology

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When researchers try to develop a theory or generate a hypothesis. It is called....

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Inductive reasoning

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Deductive reasoning goes from blank to blank

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General to Specific

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Quantitive research methods deal with

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Data, numbers and statistics

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False about regarding qqualitative data

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Respondents in qualitative research are typically asked closed ended questions where the researcher can gain a deeper understanding of the given topic

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Difference between qualitative research and quantitive research exclude

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The importance of lit review

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Inductive research goes from blank to blank

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Specific to general

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False about applied and basic research

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Most corporations and government entities provide research funding even though they do not have a clearly defined problem

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Individuals concerned with who consucts research primarily focused on what?

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Objectivity of research

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Who can provide the highest level of objectivity regarding research fi dings and interpretations?

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Third party research

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What research is conducted in an attempt to describe a problem policy or program?

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Descriptive research

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This research seeks to reveal or explain causes motivations or reasons of why certain phenomena occur?

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Explanatory research

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Which of the following does not constitute cause and effect relationships?

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Direction of change

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This means that when one variable changes the other variable also changes

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Concomitant Variation

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Means that cause must occur first before the effect does.

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Temporal Sequencing

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Elimination of other rival casual factors that can influence the change in a given cause amd effect relationship is related to

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Nonspuriousness

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Which of the following is the most diificult to operationalize

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Family enviroment

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Oftentimes researchers have a problem with collectig their own data. What is recommended?

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Secondary data analysis

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What phrase is this that researchers code the data for further statisticals analyses?

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Data collection

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Scale measurement means the operationalized variable represents a name of a category

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Nominal

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This type of measurement include level of education on a rank order

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Ordinal

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Iq repeesents this type of measurement....

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Interval

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Outlines the most important ethical concerns for studies involving human subjects

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Belmont report

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To improve the reliability of an instrument researchers may use rhe same exam or questionnaire, ore than one time

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Test retest reliability

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To determine reliability researchers can take multiple questions when measuring the factor od interest

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Interitem reliability

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Concerned with how well the study findinfs are gemerlizable to other settings.

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External validity

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Among threats to internal validity. refers to any physical or psychological changes taking place within subjects that occurs with the passi g of time regardless of the experimental manipulation

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Maturation

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Occurs when outliers move closer to the mean on subsequent testing

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Statistical Regression

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What is the simplest solution to statistical regression?

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To remove outliers from the study or convert outliers to the mean value

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Occurs when the research subjects in the experimental group are not similar to those in the control group.

occurs when research subjects drop put of the study before it concludes.

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Morality

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Research subjects in the control group may get thr information on the treatment that the subjects in the experimental group receive ehich can contaminate the study outcome.

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Diffusion of treatment

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Occurs when the researcher subjects in the control group learn of special treatment given to the experimental group snd alter their behavior

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Compensatory Rivalry

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One's hair color is not a predictor of future athletic success because it lacks....

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Construct validity

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The main purpose is to examine the phenomenon from the perspective of thestudy participants which requiees researchers to engage in the study to a certain degree

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Ethnography

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What is the primary distinction between experimental designs and quasi experimental designs?

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Randomization

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Which probability sampling is the most appropiate when studying voting behavior comparing neighborhoods or zip code zones?

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Cluster sampling

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Refers to a sampling method that takes every nth person of the population list

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Systematic sampling

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Refers to the sampling technique that utilizes preexisting easily aaccesible subjects who are not randonly selected but chosen for availability

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Convience sampling

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Refers to the sampling strategies where research subjects are specifically chosen for participation.

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Snowball sampling

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Collected from categories therefore they have a set endpoint

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Discrete point

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Are not infinite therefore they can be divided and broken down into smaller values such as 1.53

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Continous data

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Refers to the normal bell shapedcurve when the data are plotted

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Mesokuric curve

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Scoees are spread out relatively evenly

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Positively skewed