GF 1 and 2

Question 1

the process of forming questions and systematically attempting to answer them

Answer 1

the scientific method

Question 2

What is the point of research?

Answer 2

Creating a body of knowledge

Question 3

What does a hypothesis do?

Answer 3

Fills in gaps in knowledge

Question 4

confounding variable of participant characteristics that might affect results

Answer 4

Subject variables

Question 5

confounding variable of administrator characteristics that might affect results

Answer 5

Experimental variables

Question 6

confounding variable of environmental factors that might affect results

Answer 6

Situational variables

Question 7

research that concentrates on theories and academia

Answer 7

Basic research

Question 8

research that focuses on real-world observation and practical problems at hand. Difficult to control variables.

Answer 8

Applied research

Question 9

Using specific examples to draw general conclusions

Answer 9

Inductive reasoning

Question 10

Using general conclusions to generate specific predictions

Answer 10

Deductive reasoning

Question 11

humans in a research study

Answer 11

Participants

Question 12

non humans in a research study

Answer 12

Subjects

Question 13

What is a check against scientific error?

Answer 13

Replication

Question 14

What makes something pseudo-science?

Answer 14

It does not have a testable or refutable hypothesis

Question 15

What are the 4 requirements of a hypothesis?

Answer 15

Logical, testable, refutable, and positive

Question 16

Material that is firsthand presented by the person who did the study

Answer 16

Primary source

Question 17

Material that discusses someone else’s study

Answer 17

Secondary source

Question 18

Section of the lit review that discusses previous research

Answer 18

Introduction

Question 19

Section of the lit review that includes conclusions, applications, and ideas for future studies

Answer 19

Discussion

Question 20

gives you current studies that cite a past study you have an interest in

Answer 20

Web of Science

Question 21

What are the 3 modalities of measurement for a construct?

Answer 21

Self reports (SR), physiological measures (PM), and behavioral measures (BM)

Question 22

Information that has always been believed because of habit or superstition.

Answer 22

Method of tenacity

Question 22

Information is accepted because of a hunch or a feeling

Answer 22

Method of intuition

Question 22

Information you get by relying on experts (library, TV, google, newspapers, doctors, lawyers)

Answer 22

Method of authority

Question 23

Information accepted with unquestioning trust from an authority figure

Answer 23

Method of faith

Question 24

Gaining information using logical reason (premise statements and arguments)

Answer 24

Rationalism/rational method

Question 25

Method using senses and direct observation to obtain information

Answer 25

Empirical method

Question 26

What is a variable?

Answer 26

Characteristic or condition that changes

Question 27

What is a hypothesis?

Answer 27

Describes a relationship between variables

Question 28

Elements of science

Answer 28

Empirical, public, and objective