7 Flashcards
….. is the procedures and methods to be adhered in conducting a research project.
Research design
Purpose of the study:
- Exploratory
- Descriptive
- Hypothesis teting
….. is done to clarify ambiguous problems.
Exploratory study
….. provides the number of times something occur,or frequency, lends itself to statistical calculations.
Descriptive study
….. is done to explain the nature of certain relationships.
Hypothesis testing
Extent of researcher interference and study setting:
Minimal-Field study
A good amount-Field experiment
A lot-Lab experiment
….., where correlational relations are studied in the natural setting where events normally occur.
Field studies
….., where cause-effect relationships are studied where events normally occur.
Field experiments
…., cause-effect relationships are studied in an artificially created setting.
Lab experiments
….. method assesses changes in behavior in one group of subjects at more than one point in time.
Longitudinal
….. method examines several groups of people at one point in time.
Cross sectional