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17 Cards in this Set
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Selective Observation
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Choosing to look only at things that are in line with our preferences or beliefs.
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Illogical Reasoning
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Prematurely jumping to conclusions or arguing on the basis of invalid assumptions.
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Resistance to Change
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Resistance to reevaluate our ideas or beliefs in light of new information.
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Psuedoscience
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Claims presented so that they appear scientific although they lack supporting evidence.
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Descriptive Research
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describes data and characteristics about the population or phenomenon being studied
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Exploratory Research
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Seeks to find out how people get along in the setting under question, what meanings they give to their actions, and what issues concern them.
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Explanatory Research
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Seeks to identify causes and effects of social phenomena amd to predict how one phenomena will change or interact with another.
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Evaluation Research
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Seeks to determine the effects of government programs or policies.
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Quantitative Methods
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Methods such as surveys and experiments that record variation in social life in terms of categories that vary in amount.
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Qualitative Methods
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methods that rely on written or spoken workds or observations that do not have a direct numerical representation.
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Triangulation
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The use of multiple research methods to study one research question.
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Measurement Validity
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Exists when a measure measures what we think it measures.
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Generalizability
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Exists when a conclusion hols true for the population.
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Causal Validity
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Exists when a conclusion that A leads to or results in B is correct.
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Authenticity
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When the understanding of a social process or social setting is one that reflects fairly the various perspectives of participants in that setting.
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Sample Generalizability
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Exists when a conclusion based on a sample, or a subset, of a larger population holds trye for that population.
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Cross-Population Generalizability
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Exists when findings about one group, population, or setting hold true for other groups.
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