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12 Cards in this Set
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Operational Definition |
The way in which a researcher measures a variable |
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Validity |
The extent to which an operational definition measures what it is intended to measure |
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Reliability |
The extent to which research produces consistent or dependable results |
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Survey |
The collection of data by having people answer a series of questions |
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Rapport |
a feeling of trust between researchers and the people they are studying |
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Participant Observation |
Research in which the researcher participates in a research setting while observing what is happening in that setting |
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Case study |
an intensive analysis of a single event, situation, or individual |
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Secondary analysis |
the analysis of data that have been collected by other researchers |
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Documents |
in its narrow sense: written sources that provide data; In its extended sense: archival material of any sort including photographs, movies, cd's, dvd's, and so on |
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Experiment |
Use of control and experimental groups and dependent and independent variables to test causation |
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Hypothesis |
A statement of how variables are expected to be related to one another, often according to predictions from a theory |
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Replication |
the repetition of a study in order to test its findings |
