Lecture 3 - Quantative Research

Question 1

What is Quantitive research?

Answer 1

Quantitative research is a formal, objective, systematic process in which numerical data is used to obtain information about the world.

Question 2

What are the 3 types of study design in quantitative research?

Answer 2

Descriptive analyses, correlation analyses, and causal analyses

Question 3

What are descriptive analyses?

Answer 3

To summarise data about something

Question 4

What are correlation analyses?

Answer 4

To examine the relationships between data about different things

Question 5

What are causal analyses?

Answer 5

To determine cause and effect interactions between things

Question 6

What are variables?

Answer 6

Something in the world that can vary and that we can manipulate (change), measure (evaluate), or both manipuate and measure

Question 7

What is the Independent Variable?

Answer 7

Explains or predicts change or variation - the one aspect the experiment you change

Question 8

What is the dependent variable?

Answer 8

Measures change or variation - the change that happens because of changes to the independent variable

Question 9

What is an Extraneous variable?

Answer 9

Any variable that you’re not investigating that can potentially affect the outcomes of your research study - affect the dependent variable

Question 10

What are confounding variables?

Answer 10

Confounding variables are a type of extraneous variable that are related to a study’s independent and dependent variables.
They must be:
> Correlated with or causally related to the IV
> Causally related to the DV