Chapter 3 Flashcards
Exploratory Research
Discover ideas and insights
Search for clues at a crime scene to establish what happened
Descriptive Research
Describing a population with respect to important variables
Interview witnesses and suspects
Casual Research
Used to establish cause-and-effect relationships between variables
Determine whether evidence is sufficient to convict a suspect of a crime
What are the various types of exploratory research?
Literature Search, Depth Interviews, Focus Groups, Case Analyses , Projective Methods
laboratory experiments
Laboratory Experiments includes a situation with exact conditions, control of variables other x or y is maximized, and x variables are manipulated.
cross sectional?
Cross-Sectional Studies are a sample taken from the population, more representative than panels, response rate may be a problem, and need to obtain demographic info fir each sample.
continuous panel?
Continous Panels rely on repeated measurements of the same variables and can provide time series analysis data
Literature Search
the methodical investigation of all published sources for information bearing on a usually scientific or technological subject
Focus Groups
An interview conducted among a small number of individuals simultaneously The interview (moderator) relies more on group discussion than on directed questions to generate data.
Could help in generating hypothesis
Group dynamics
Could be helpful in constructing questionnaires
Advantages/disadvantages
Projective Methods and what are the types?
Methods that encourage respondents to reveal their own feelings, thoughts, and behaviors by shifting the focus away from the individual through the use of indirect tasks.
Storytelling
Role playing
Word Association
Sentence Completion
Case Analyses
A detailed analysis of a person or group, especially as a model of medical, psychiatric, psychological, or social phenomena
Discontinous
Discontinous panels are repeated measurements over time but on variables that change from study to study and samples are drawn to meet specific needs. Random or representative samples.
longitudinal descriptive research designs?
Longitudinal Descriptive involves a panel, panels remain constant through time, better response and better quality data, and there are two types of panels, true and omnibus panels.
field experiments?
Field experiment includes a situation with fluid conditions, control of variables other x or y is challenging, and x variables are manipulated
