quantitative - chapter 5

Question 1

When writing a research report, you have to make sure this catches people’s interest

Answer 1

The abstract

Question 2

An abstract should do these three things

Answer 2

Speak about football of it is about football, should not require any prerequisite special information from the reader, and should discuss how you’re going to talk about football

Question 3

An abstract should be no more than

Answer 3

120 words in length

Question 4

some ways of attention-getting in the introduction are

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surprising statistics, rhetorical questions which lean into the research, widely known facts which are elaborated on, stories or illustrations, quoting a source and remarking on it

Question 5

after you link your intro to the topic, you must then talk about

Answer 5

the significance of the topic and credibility of the research

Question 6

what comes last in the introduction?

Answer 6

a thesis

Question 7

literature reviews provide

Answer 7

basic vocabulary for readers unfamiliar with the topic, where your study fits in with the hisotry of this particular research, different studies variables, what still needs to be accomplished in this research, and to justify the argument being made

Question 8

in a literature review, researchers will organizae their previous research this way, because of history

Answer 8

chronologically

Question 9

this organizational way of writing a lit review has to do with the research that has been made in one subject area and its progress

Answer 9

cause and effect

Question 10

this literature review method takes research on the topic from its problem to its solution in an attempt to show how this issue could be solved

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problem cuase solution

Question 11

this method of organizing a lit review involves going from a to b, b to c, ect.

Answer 11

psychological

Question 12

this method involves a good deal of organizing variables

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categorical/topical

Question 13

when you disocver that not much research has been made in that subject area, and you go into a discussion as to why

Answer 13

KNOWN to unknown

Question 14

a two-tailed hypothesis means that we are not looking for this kind of a relationship

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positive or negative, because we don’t yet know what it will be

Question 15

a one-tailed hypothesis expects this

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a positive or negative relationship

Question 16

a null hypothesis tries to do this

Answer 16

disprove

Question 17

when a researcher asks if there is a specific difference, such as positive or negative, between two or more variables, it is called

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a directional research question

Question 18

when a researcher asks if there is a relationship at all between two or more variables, it is called

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a non directional research question

Question 19

the purpose of the methods section is

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for readers to see what you did and critique that way of doing it, and allows future researchers to replicate how you went about it and how they do similar studies

Question 20

what does the instrumentation part of the methods procedure involve?

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how we go about measuring things

Question 21

the discussion is for

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how the results turned out the way they did, the limitations of the study, and areas for future considerations

Question 22

in some research papers, the conclusion section

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does not exist