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Research is a intensive activity that is based on the work of others and generates new ideas to pursue and questios to answer
A process through which new knowledge is discovered.
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| helps us to organize our research into a set of related ideas. |
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| following a model that begins with a question and ends with asking new questions. |
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| To find the truith, this results in reasonable and sound answer to importan questions that will fuher our understanding of human behavior |
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An educated guess
results whe a question are transformed into statements that express the relationship between variables, such as if and then statements. |
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| Non experimental Research |
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Examines the relaionship between vaiables, withou any attempt to cause and effect relationships
Relationships between variables |
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Focus on events that have ocurred in the pesent
Characteristic of an existing phenomenon |
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Provides a picture of events that are currently happening or have occurred in the past
Certain Events leading up to each oher |
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Examines the relationship between variables
Discribes how two are more variables are related. |
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| Correlation research uses a numerical index as a measure of strength of the relationship |
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These do not diectly test for cause and effect
placed in the non experimental methods
studies phenomena within the social and cultural context in which they ocurr. |
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| Examines the cause and effect relationship between variables. |
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| True Experimental Research |
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examines diect cause and effect relationships
paricipants are assigned to groups based on criteria |
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| Quasi-Experimental Research |
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Focus on cause and effect, bu hey are preassigned groups based on predeermined characteristics
Also called post-hoc or after the fact |
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Experimental Research Mehods vs
non experimenal
When to use them |
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distinction beween the two types of reseach
Also known as pure research
Both basic and applied research are critical parts of studying ad undersanding a wide range of phenomea
has no immediate application at the time of completion |
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has an immediate application at the time of completion
Both basic and applied research are critical parts of studying ad undersanding a wide range of phenomea |
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