Chapter 6 Objectives , Questions, Hypothesis and Study Variables

Question 1

What are dead concepts at various levels of abstraction that are measured, manipulated, or controlled in a study

Answer 1

Study variables

Question 2

What are clear, concise, declarative statemntents expressed int the present tense to specify the foci of the study

Answer 2

Research objectives/aims

Question 3

What is a concise interrogative statement that is worked in the present tense and includes one or more of a study principles concepts or variables

Answer 3

Research questions

Question 4

What is a stated relationship between or among variables within a specified population

Answer 4

Hypothesis

Question 5

What type of hypothesis proposes a cause and effect relationship between variables in which one causes the other

Answer 5

A casual hypothesis

Question 6

What type of hypothesis presents a noncauseative relationship among variables

Answer 6

Associative hypothesis

Question 7

What type of hypothesis predicts the relationship between only two cariables

Answer 7

Simple hypothesis

Question 8

What type of hypothesis predicts the relationship among three of more variables

Answer 8

A complex hypothesis

Question 9

What types of hypothesis states theatre or direction of a proposed relationship between variables

Answer 9

Directional hypothesis

Question 10

What type of hypothesis does not specify the direction of the relationship between and among variables

Answer 10

Nondirectional hypothesis

Question 11

What type of hypothesis is used for statistical testing and interpretation of study results

Answer 11

The null hypothesis AKA the statistical hypothesis

Question 12

What type of hypothesis is the alternative hypothesis and it represents the researchers posited results

Answer 12

A research hypothesis

Question 13

What types of hypothesis contains variables that can be precisely measured or manipulated in a study

Answer 13

Testable hypothesis

Question 14

What are concepts or ideas qualities properties or characteristics of a person things or situations that are studied in research

Answer 14

Variables

Question 15

What are variables that are subject or participant characteristics measured during a study and used to describe a sample

Answer 15

Demographic variables

Question 16

What are variables that are not central to a study research purpose but have a potential effect on the results making the independent variable appear more or less powerful than it really is in its effect on the value of the dependent variable

Answer 16

Extraneous variables

Question 17

What type of variables that are not recognized until the study is in process or that are recognized before the study is initiated but cannot be controlled

Answer 17

Confounding variables

Question 18

What is the term for a variable that is used to refer to a variable that is the focus of a quantitative study but that is not identified as an independent or a dependent variable

Answer 18

Research variable

Question 19

What type of variables are those that emanate from the research setting

Answer 19

Environmental variables

Question 20

What type of variables change the strength and sometimes the direction of a relationship between other variables

Answer 20

Modifying variables

Question 21

What type of variables that occur as links in the chanin between independent and dependent variables

Answer 21

Mediating variables

Question 22

Whaat identifies that meaning of an idea

Answer 22

A conceptual definination