RESEARCH METHODS FOR THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES - CHAPTER 6 (GRAVETTER & FORZANO) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2025

research strategy - ANSWER A general approach to research determined by the kind of question that the research study hopes to answer. research design - ANSWER A general plan for implementing a research strategy. A research design specifies whether the study will involve groups or individual subjects, will make comparisons within a group or between groups, or specifies how many variables will be included in the study. research procedure - ANSWER The exact, step-by-step description of a specific research study. external validity - ANSWER The extent to which we can generalize the results of a research study to people, settings, times, measures, and characteristics other than those used in that study. threat to external validity - ANSWER Any characteristic of a study that limits the ability to generalize the results. internal validity - ANSWER The extent to which a research study produces a single, unambiguous explanation for the relationship between two variables. threat to internal validity - ANSWER Any factor that allows for an alternative explanation for the results of a study. extraneous variable - ANSWER Any variable that exists within a study other than the variables being studied. In an experiment, any variable other than the independent and dependent variables. c