M8: Quantitative Research Design

Question 1

What is a Cross-sectional Design?

Answer 1

– Collect data at only 1 time point

Question 2

What is a Longitudinal Design?

Answer 2

Repeated measurement of variables over time

Question 3

What is a
Between-groups Designs?

Answer 3

• Separate group for each condition
  – Participants only provide data once

Question 4

What is a
Repeated-measures Designs?

Answer 4

• Observations are taken from the same
  participants more than once
• In a repeated measures design ‘time of observation’
  is an independent/predictor variable.

Question 5

What is a Mixed Factorial Designs?

Answer 5

Both between-group & repeated measures elements

Question 6

What are Non-experimental Designs?

Answer 6

• Research designs where there is a theoretically
  presumed cause and effect
• No control group and random assignment
• “Observational design”; “Correlational design”