week 4 PTTR (manipulation and control)

Question 1

what is a descriptive research strategy?

Answer 1

a strategy that aims to describe a variable/ phenomenon

it does not try and uncover the cause of the phenomenon, or look for correlations between variables

Question 2

what is an experimental research strategy

Answer 2

a strategy intended to answer cause and effect questions between two variables

Question 3

what is a quasi experimental research strategy?

Answer 3

an experimental study that contains a flaw that prevents the researcher from obtaining an absoloute cause and effect answer

Question 4

what is a nonexperimental research strategy?

Answer 4

demonstrates the relationship between two variables but cannot explain the relationship or demonstrate cause and effect

Question 5

what is the difference between nonexperimental and correlational research?

Answer 5

correlational uses one group of participants and two variables

nonexperimental compares two or more groups of scores, using only one variable (so sort of like the participants are the second variable, e.g gender or age)

Question 6

what is a research procedure?

Answer 6

an exact, step by step description of a specific research study