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Research Methods

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Effects of being born and raised in a particular time or situation where all other members of your group has similar experiences makes your group unique from others






2. Giving participants in a research study a complete explanation of the study after the study is completed needed for deception






3. We overestimate our accuracy and our changes of success and ability to predict and explain






4. Sample that fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of inclusion.






5. Symbol used to represent the total number of subjects in a research study






6. Sample drawn in such a way that known subgroups within a population are represented in proportion to their numbers in general population






7. Change in subject's behavior caused simply by awareness of being studied






8. Data of categories only. Data cannot be arranged in an ordering scheme. (Gender - Race - Religion)






9. Experimental procedure in which both research participants and research staff are ignorant about whether the research participants have received the treatment or a placebo.






10. Expectations by researcher that might influence results of experiment or its interpretation






11. Results of experiment are SIGNIFICANT - they are not likely caused by chance






12. Descriptive research that involves observing and recording behavior without trying to manipulate and control the situation.






13. Method by which participants are misinformed or misled about study's methods and purposes - must be told truth about this in debriefing






14. Experimental factor that is manipulated; variable whose effect is being studied.






15. A research method that looks like an experiment BUT subjects are not randomly assigned to control and experimental groups (no cause and effect can be drawn)






16. Type of line graph that shows frequency distributions






17. Tendency to believe - after learning an outcome - that one would have foreseen it.






18. Repeating of research study to determine if its finding extends to other participants and circumstances






19. Variable that may change in response to manipulations of the IV (what is measured)






20. Perception of relationship where none exists.






21. Computed measure of how much scores vary around the mean score.






22. Difference between highest and lowest scores in a distribution.






23. Occur when the questions asked on a sample survey are confusing or leading






24. Arithmetic average of a distribution -






25. Perception of a correlation between variables where none exists.






26. Statistical measure of strength of association between two variables ranging from -1.0 to 1.0






27. Tendency to overestimate extent to which others share our beliefs and behaviors






28. Condition of experiment that contrasts with experimental condition and serves as a comparison for evaluating the effect of the treatment.






29. Degree to which test is representative of total domain its supposed to cover.






30. Form of validity in which a psychological measure is able to predict some future behavior or is meaningfully related to some other measure






31. Research method in which info is obtained by asking many individuals a fixed set of questions






32. Symbol used for Pearson Correlation Coefficient ranges from -1.0 to +1.0






33. Not rejecting null hypothesis when in fact we should have rejected it - a false negative






34. Statistical method for making simultaneous comparisons between two or more means






35. All cases in a group - from which samples may be drawn for a study






36. Procedure that ensures every person in a population has an equal chance of being chosen to participate






37. Correlation where as one variable increases - the other also increases - or as one decreases so does the other. Both variables move in same direction.






38. Extent to which scores suggest that a test is actually measuring an ABSTRACT theoretical idea (such as anxiety - personality - introversion - etc.).






39. Relationship between variables in which as one variable increases - the other also increases - OR as one decreases so does the other. Both variables move in the same direction.






40. Research method in which investigator manipulates one or more factors (IV) to observe effect on some behavior or mental process (DV)






41. Assigning participants to experimental and control conditions by chance - thus minimizing preexisting differences between those assigned to different groups.






42. Factors in an experiment that are unchanged for both the control group and the experimental group






43. Subset of a population in which every element in the population has an equal chance of being selected






44. Researchers takes subjects & conditions as they naturally occur - with little if any control over what happens. no random assignment so no cause and effect can be determined






45. In-depth - intensive investigation of individual or small group of people which involves interviews and personal interpretations by researcher. It may also be supplemented with psychological or medical tests






46. Indication of how likely a result obtained occurred by chance - expressed as p or sig.






47. Set of assumptions used to explain phenomena & offered for scientific study






48. Variable not relevant to what you are studying that has unplanned effect on DV. It may influence results - but all conditions are effected so it does not create bias.






49. Bar graph that shows frequency distributions






50. Skewed distribution where data has many more scores toward the lower end of the distribution