Research Flashcards
first 3 steps in research:
identify topic, develop question, research leads to hypothesis
what is in research report? 8
abstract (condensation of final report), intro, review existing, method, result, discussion (interpretation of results), conclusion, implication
descriptive VS analytical research. Which is causal, egs
analytical-causal
What is Hawthorne effect
positive response dt attention participants receive
Quasi-exp design when are measurements taken?
before begin and after end
Quasi-exp is there control group?
no
whats incidence vs prevalence study? examples
frequency of dz, cohort, all cases in a time frame, cross-sectional
difference between internal validity and external validity
dif btw 2 groups real vs can be applied to general public
analysis of variance uses
anova
anova ultimately measures
vaalidity
dependent and independent variable
outcome, manipulations
what are eg of measure of central tendency
mean, median, mode
what are eg of measure of dispersion
range, sd
about___of all observations in a normal distribution lie within ___ SD of the mean
68%, 1
value of r is between __ and __
-1 and 1