Understanding Research Design
Q1. What is generally referred to when discussing the broad categories of experimental research versus applied research?
Q2. What is the purpose of an institutional review board (IRB)?
Q3. Can a theory be proven? Disproven?
Q4. What are the distinguishing elements of:
- a case study, a descriptive study, a correlational design, and an experimental design?
Include things like:
Sample size, naturalistic observation, surveys, manipulating variables (IVs, DVs), control groups, random assignment.
Q5. In research, how do you spot an independent variable? Dependent variable? Third-degree variable?
Q6. What are the elements of a debriefing? Of operational definitions?
Q7. Broadly speaking, what is reliability? Validity?
Q8. Describe what is meant by a theory? A hypothesis?
Q9. Why are human beings so difficult to study?
Q10. Describe single-blind and double-blind research methods.
Q11. What is the difference between random assignment and random sampling?
Q12. What is the relationship between a population and a random sampling? Why use random sampling?