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Descriptive research

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Observation and description of a behavior, the situation it occurs in, or the individual exhibiting it

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Purpose of descriptive research

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Describe natural behaviors

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Three advantages to descriptive research

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Informative, starting point for IDing variables and building HCs that can be tested later using other methods, and it can be the only practical or ethical method

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Two categories of descriptive research

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Observational and field studies

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Observational research

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Observe in an unobtrusive manner

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3 observational methods

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Naturalistic, systematic naturalistic, and participant observation

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Naturalistic observation

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Observes a wide variety of behaviors in an unobtrusive manner

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Systematic naturalistic observation

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ID a particular behavior to observe

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Participant observation

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Researcher becomes a participating member of the group being observed

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Advantage to observational designs

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Behaviors are not influenced by reactivity or other demand characteristics

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Disadvantages of observational designs

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Descriptions are susceptible to experimenter expectations, limited in individuals we can find to observe (unrepresentative sample), only have verbal descriptions (qualitative data lacks precision and accuracy), no informed consent, little internal validity

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Raters

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People who are blind to the hypothesis and trained to use our scoring criteria

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Multiple raters

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More than one rater

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Inter-rater reliability

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The extent to which rates agree on the scores they assign to a participant’s behavior

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Other observational research procedures

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Archival research, ex post facto research, and case studies

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Archival research

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Source of data is written records

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Disadvantages to archival research

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Obtaining access to records may be difficult, records are not made with a researcher’s question in mind, and there are few control to prevent the record-keeper’s biases and errors

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Advantages to archival research

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Allows us to study behaviors that would otherwise be unobservable

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Ex post facto research

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A descriptive or experimental study conducted after the events of interest have occurred.

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Disadvantages to ex post facto research

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Obtain potentially unreliable data

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Case study

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In-depth study of one situation or “case”

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Advantage of case studies

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Provide an in-depth description

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Disadvantage of case studies

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Generalizability may be poor

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Field survey

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People complete a questionnaire/interview in a natural setting so that we may infer the responses we would see if we polled the population

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Mailed survey

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Useful when we need a larger sample and/or a lengthy questionnaire is being used

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Telephone survey

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Shorter and faster

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Difficulty with mailed and phone surveys

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Getting people to participate

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Volunteer bais

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Bias that arises from the particular people who participate in a study, volunteers tend to have a higher social status and intelligence

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Two sampling techniques

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Probability and nonprobabilty sampling

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Probability sampling

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Random sampling

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Simple random sampling

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Select participants so that all members of the pollution have an equal chance of being selected

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Systematic random sampling

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Every nth person is selected

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Stratified random sampling

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Randomly select form the important subgroups so that their representation in the sample in proportional to the population

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Cluster sampling

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Certain clusters/groups are randomly selected and all members of each group are observed

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Nonprobability sampling

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No random sampling

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Convenience sampling

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Study participants who are available

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Quota sampling

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Ensure the sample has the same percentage or each subgroup, but they are not randomly sampled

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Snowball sampling

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ID one participant, use him/her to find other potential participants, and ID others from them, etc…

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Close-ended question

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Researcher provides alternatives to choose from

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Disadvantage of close-ended questions

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Yield limited info

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Open-ended question

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Participant determines the alternatives to choose from and the response

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Advantages to open-ended questions

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Allow for a wide range of responses, researchers may discover new relevant variables, not limited to one perspective or phrasing

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Disadvantages of open-ended questions

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Requires research interpretation, scoring is susceptible to experimenter biases and expectations

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Content analysis

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Score a participant’s written/spoken answer by counting specified types of responses

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Advantage of interviewers

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Ensure participants complete the questions as asked; Interviewers can react to responses

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Disadvantage of interviewers

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May inadvertently heighten the demand characteristics of reactivity and social desirability

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Structured interview

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Participants are asked specific, pre-determined questions in a controlled manner

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Unstructured interview

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The researcher has a general idea of the open-ended questions that will be asked, but has the freedom to discuss and interact with the participant

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Goal of question construction

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Reliably and validly discriminate between participants on the variable being studied

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Double-barrled question

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Questions with more than one component

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Leading question

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Questions that communicate social desirability or experimenter expectancies

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Barnum statements

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Questions so global and vague that everyone would agree or select the same response

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Response scale

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Number and type of choices to provide for each question

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Use even or odd umber of choices?

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Even

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Practice effects

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Participants first find questions to be novel and react strongly then later become more comfortable or bored

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Carry-over effects

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Participants respond in a biased fashion to later questions because of earlier ones

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How to deal with order effects

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Provide practice questions
Counterbalance order effects (different orders for different participants)
Prevent response sets (vary question format to force the participant to think)
Use alternate forms

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Alternate forms

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Different versions of the same questionnaire

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Catch trials

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Catch participants who give no thought to the questions or answer randomly, create questions to which we know the truthful response or make the same question with answers in a different order

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