Non-experimental Designs

Question 1

An experiment is a ___________ procedure.

Answer 1

controlled

Question 2

It ________ antecedent procedure, _________ treatment conditions, and _________ equivalence across groups.

Answer 2

identifies, compares, and ensures

Question 3

List the 8 Non-experimental Designs

Answer 3

Phenomenology, Case Studies, Field Studies, Archival Studies, Qualitative, Surveys and Interviews, Correlational, and Quasi-experimental Design

Question 4

Dimensions for Describing Research Designs: degree of __________ of antecedent conditions and degree of ______________ of units

Answer 4

manipulation and imposition

Question 5

The extent to which how we limit the responses of participants.

Answer 5

degree of imposition of units

Question 6

how much control we will impulse on the conditions

Answer 6

degree of manipulation of antecedents

Question 7

The extent to which a study establishes a trustworthy cause-and-effect relationship between a treatment and an outcome

Answer 7

internal validity

Question 8

generalizability of our findings or the degree to which we can apply our findings to other people and other situations

Answer 8

external validity

Question 9

description of an individual’s immediate experience

Answer 9

phenomenology

Question 10

a descriptive record of a single individual’s experiences, or behaviors, or both, kept by an outside observer

Answer 10

case study

Question 11

data are collected from real-life setting

Answer 11

field study

Question 12

observing behavior as it occur in its natural setting

Answer 12

naturalistic observations studies

Question 13

the researcher becomes a participant to the group being studied

Answer 13

participant-observer studies

Question 14

descriptive research method in which already existing records are reexamined

Answer 14

archival study