Lecture Two

Question 1

What’s the first step in conducting a research using the scientific method (quantitative research)

Answer 1

Find a research idea.
- find a general topic
- review research (find variable, identify unwatered question)

Question 2

What’s the second step in conducting a research using the scientific method (quantitative research)

Answer 2

Form an hypothesis
- suggest an answer for the unwatered question found in step one)

Question 3

What’s the third step in conducting a research using the scientific method (quantitative research)

Answer 3

Determine how you will define and measure your variable.
- variable have to be in measure to be empirically measure
- move the researcher from a general hypothesis to a empirically testable predictions)

Question 4

Participants vs Subjects
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Answer 4

• participants are human
• subject are non-human

Question 5

What’s the fourth step in conducting a research using the scientific method (quantitative research)

Answer 5

Identify the participant/subject for the study, decide how they will be selected, & plan for their ethical treatment
- who
- how and where to recruit
- ethical recruitment and informed consent
- safety and well-being

Question 6

What’s the fifth step in conducting a research using the scientific method (quantitative research)

Answer 6

Select a research strategy
- determine approach to research hypothesis (descriptive, correlational, experimental, quasi-experimental, non-experimental)
- influecend by type of question, ethics, other constraints

Question 7

What’s the sixth step in conducting a research using the scientific method (quantitative research)

Answer 7

Select a research design
- what method, material, procedure
(ie; cross-section vs longitudinal design / form of stimulus, task, doses)

Question 8

What’s the seventh step in conducting a research using the scientific method (quantitative research)

Answer 8

Conduct the study.
- collect data while implementing choice made earlier

Question 9

What’s the eight step in conducting a research using the scientific method (quantitative research)

Answer 9

Evaluate the data.
- generate the result and compile them (table, graph, charts)

Question 10

What’s the ninth step in conducting a research using the scientific method (quantitative research)

Answer 10

Report the result
- write it up

Question 11

What’s the tenth step in conducting a research using the scientific method (quantitative research)

Answer 11

Refine or reformulate your research idea; hypothesis supported or no
- if yes, test the boundaries of research and refine original research question
- if no, consider alternate explanations and flawed premises/methodological limitation