1.4 - The Process of Research Design Flashcards

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The two most common research approaches are

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  • Non-experimental or correlational designs, which assess relationships among and between variables and generally do not allow inference of a causal relationship between them.
  • Experimental designs which allow inference of causal relationships between variables, such as between independent variables and dependent variables
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Generally speaking, in a correlational design you are examining variables through an interpretation of their association

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(e.g. direction of their association, strength of their association, and statistical significance of their relationship)

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There are three different types of research:

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  • Descriptive research
  • Exploratory research
  • Explanatory/experimental research
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Research requires a precise question to be generated that is testable, in other words, it must be

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Doable

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To conduct your research you need to have access to participants, the research needs to be _______ and you need to be able to _______________ :

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ethical; competently analyse your findings

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Research also needs to build on an existing __________

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Knowledge base

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