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Research Methods

This class was created by Brainscape user Desiree Padgett. Visit their profile to learn more about the creator.

By: Desiree Padgett
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Decks in this class (20)

Ch1
Why do we need to understand rese...,
Ways of knowing what to believe,
Critical thinking
22  cards
Ch2
Sources of ideas,
Types of research reports,
Literary review
15  cards
Ch 3
What is informed consent and what...,
Autonomy issues,
Debriefing
8  cards
Ch 4
Validity is it true 4 types,
Construct validity,
Internal validity
21  cards
Ch 5
Reliability,
Assessing reliability,
Types of reliability
19  cards
Ch 6
Types of observational research,
Qualitative observational research,
Quantitative focused on specific ...
7  cards
Ch7
Studying changes over time,
Sampling from a population,
Sample
23  cards
Chapter 8
True experimental designs,
Basic experiments,
Post test only design
30  cards
Chapter 9
Selecting research partipants,
Manipulating the independent vari...,
Strength of the manipulation
22  cards
Chapter 10
Complex experimental designs,
More independent variables,
Possible outcomes of a 2x2 factor...
18  cards
Ch. 11
Not quite experimental designs,
Single case experimental designs,
Single case experimental designs ...
37  cards
Midterm 1 review
Distinguish among intuition and a...,
Define empiricism and discuss the...,
When you read a research finding ...
21  cards
Ch 12
A review,
Describing results,
Frequency distributions
24  cards
Midterm 2 Review
Define and explain the difference...,
Explain what it means to operatio...,
Describe positive linear negative...
47  cards
Chapter 13
Failing to reject null hypothesis...,
Interpreting significant results,
Null hypothesis
8  cards
Chapter 14
Generalization,
Sex vs gender,
The importance of replications
5  cards
Chapter 8
Political party,
Interest group,
Platform
16  cards
Chapter 12
Congressional page,
Seniority rule,
Fililbuster
17  cards
Chapter 13
Explain the difference between de...,
State the null hypothesis and exp...,
Under what conditions do we rejec...
9  cards

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