Research & Statistics 566
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- 1.Which type of planning involves constructing or selecting measuring instruments? Pyrczak p 4
- A.
Whom
- B.
How
- C.
When
- D.
Under what circumstances
- 2.The term empiricism refers to what? Pyrczak p3
- 3.Does everyday observation employ the empirical approach? Pyrczak p3
- 4.When researchers systematically use the empirical approach to acquire knowledge, we say that they are engaging in what? Pyrczak p3
- 5.What is the name for a subset of a population? Pyrczak p3
- 6.Even the best plans for research often cannot be fully executed for physical reasons. What are some other reasons for this? Pyrczak p4
- 7.The observations that researchers make result in what? Pyrczak p4
- 8.Are the data that researchers collect always "scores"? Pyrczak p4
- 9.In recent decades, researchers have increasingly used what term to refer to the individuals being studied? Pyrczak p5
- 10.What is science? Bordens & Abbott p G10
- 11.What do scientists do? Bordens & Abbot p G10
- 12.What is meant by the statement that the scientific method is an attitude? Bordens & Abbot p3
- 13.How do basic and applied research differ, and how are they similar? Bordens & Abbot p4
- 14.How are problems framed in research therms? Bordens & Abbott p5
- 15.What is confirmation bias? Bordens & Abbot p G2
- 16.Why should you care about learning about research, even if you are not planning a career in research? Bordens & Abbott p6
- 17.What are the two steps suggested by Cialdini (1994) for exploring the causes of behavior and how do they relate to explaining behavior? Bordens & Abbot p7
- 18.What is pseudoscience and how does it differ from science? Bordens & Abbot p8
- 19.What are the main characteristic of scientific explanations? Describe each. Bordens & Abbot p10
- 20.How do scientific and commonsense explanations differ? Bordens & Abbot p11
- 21.How do scientific and belief-based explanations differ? Bordens & Abbot p13
- 22.What kinds of questions do scientists refrain from investigating? Bordens & Abbot p10
- 23.How can faulty inferences invalidate a scientific explanation? Bordens & Abbot p14
- 24.What are pseudoexplanations, and how do you avoid them? Bordens & Abbot p G9 &17
- 25.What are the defining characteristics and weaknesses of the method of authority and the rational method? Bordens & Abbot p19
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