Chapter 3 & 4-research types and ethics Flashcards
Basic research types: applied research
Trying to address a certain issue or topic
Basic research types: secondary research
Data that was collected by a third-party or for some other purpose
Basic research types: primary research
Involves conducting research oneself or using the data for the purpose it was intended for
Basic research types: qualitative research
Research that got his information that is not numerical form
Basic research types: quantitative research
Information about quantities; that is, information that can be measured and written down and numbers
Basic research types: longitudinal
Research done over time
Basic research types: cross-sectional research
Research done at one point in time
Basic research types: exploratory research
Finding knowledge that is very much unknown
Basic research types: descriptive research
A study decide to pick the participants in an accurate way. More simply put, descriptive research is all about describing people take part in the study
Basic research types: causal research
Research that involves finding the effect of one thing on another or the effect of one variable and another
What is a syndicated source
Individuals who scan everything that they buy and is put into a database of information that is able to be bought
What is a literature review?
A comprehensive examination of available information that is related to your research topic
Exploratory research is also known as what?
Soft data
Exploratory research types: avante-garde techniques
Research conducted by forms of art especially in the visual, literacy, or musical arts,who’s works are characterized chiefly by unorthodox and experimental methods (example. Collages depicting someone’s feeling towards an object)
Exploratory research methods: ethnographic research
Where you go and live with the subjects
Exploratory research methods: hypnosis
Used because people aren’t always truthful
Explored her research methods: projective techniques
Word association, sentence completion
What is observational research?
The gathering of primary data by observing relevant people, actions and situations
Forms of observational research:shopper patterns
The direction people take when they enter stores
Forms of observational research: physical trace measures
For example restaurants: one foods come back they see what you’re not eating
What are the two methods of research administration?
Human and mechanical administration
Forms of experimental research: cause-and-effect
A method of gathering primary data in which the researcher is able to observe the results of changing one variable in the situation all holding all others constant
What is ethics?
The appropriateness of your behavior in relation to others [others are those who become the subject of your work or are affected by it]
And marketing research is ethics debatable?
No