Research

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A written collection of articles describing the methods and results of new research.

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Journals

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A collection of articles for those “in the biz,” about related professional topics, seldom directly reporting the methods and results of new research.

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Trade Magazines

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An unscientific collection of articles about a wide range of topics.

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Magazines

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It contains a wealth of information on just about every topic.
No review of information placed on the Internet to ensure that it is accurate.

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Internet

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are conducted under controlled conditions, in which the researcher manipulates the independent variable (IV) to measure the effect on the dependent variable (DV).

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Laboratory Research

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The extent to which research results can be expected to hold true outside the specific setting in which they were obtained.

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External Validity

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research conducted in a natural setting as opposed to a laboratory.

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Field research

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The formal process by which subjects give permission to be included in a study. Psychologists require that subjects participate in studies of their own free will.

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Informed consent

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The most powerful of all research methods because it is the only one that can determine cause-and-effect relationships.

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Experiments

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• one or more independent variables

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Manipulation

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subjects to experimental and control conditions.

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random assignment

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• The manipulated variable in an experiment.

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Independent Variable

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The measure of behavior is expected to change as a result of changes in the independent variable.

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Dependent Variable

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In an experiment, the group of subjects that receives the experimental treatment of interest to the experimenter.

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Experimental group

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Research that involves the use of previously collected data.

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Archival Research

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to ask people their opinion on some topic. It can be conducted via a variety of methods such as mail, personal interviews, phone, email, and the Internet.

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Surveys

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is a statistical method of reaching conclusions based on previous research.

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meta analysis

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a statistic that indicates the amount of change caused by an experimental manipulation.

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Effect size

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a statistic that is the average of the effect sizes for all studies included in the analysis.

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mean effect size

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are used as the effect size when researchers are interested in the relationship between two variables, and the majority of studies use correlation as their statistical test.

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Correlation coefficients (r)

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is used as the effect size when researchers are looking at the difference between two groups.

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difference score (d)