Week Three

Question 0

What are the different types of research questions?

Answer 0

Questions of definition or fact
Questions of variable relations
Questions of value
Questions of policy

Question 1

Describe the approach to communication research

Answer 1

1) Identify your research question
2) Formulate your hypothesis
3) Reasoning and experience
4) Design and conduct
5) Analysis and interpretation

Question 2

Within subject designs?

Answer 2

The same group of people experience more than one condition, or multiple variables are assessed within the same group of people

Question 3

Between subject designs?

Answer 3

Different groups of people are exposed to different conditions in the experiment

Question 4

Qualitative

Answer 4

Describes observations

Question 5

Quantitative

Answer 5

Uses numbers or qualities

Question 6

Significance

Answer 6

The probability that your result occurred by chance versus the probability it occurred because your hypothesis is actually predicting something that really exists.

Question 7

Multilevel modelling

Answer 7

A complicated statistical technique that assesses multiple observations/pieces of data at the same time rather than sequentially.