8] Research Design

Question 1

What are the steps of understanding

Answer 1

1: prediction
2: application
3: explanation
4: description

Question 2

What are the two types of description

Answer 2

1: concrete
E.g: census
2: abstract
E.g: how many people feel sad

Question 3

What is prediction

Answer 3

It refers to predicting information you do not have

Question 4

What is explanation

Answer 4

It is when you understand work or something to happen and how A cause B
E.g: Earth rotating causes the Sun to rise each morning so if the Earth stopped rotating the Sun wouldn’t rise

Question 5

Causation: How can we be sure one thing causes another

Answer 5

1: There must be a relationship between them
2: We must be sure the cause precedes the effect
3: We must be sure that no other variables can explain the relationship

Question 6

What is a confounding variable

Answer 6

A confounding variable is one that creates the illusion of a causal relationship between two variables
E.g: imagine people who attend more lectures in college tend to do better in exams

Question 7

Gravetter and Forzano four broad research strategies

Answer 7

1: Description
2: Correlation
3: Experimental
4: Quasi-experimental and non-experimental

Question 8

Research types

Answer 8

1: Explanatory (theory building)
2: Confirmatory (theory testing)
3: Longitudinal
4: Cross-sectional