Social Work Research - Ch. 6 Questions and Answers Graded Exam

Social Work Research - Ch. 6 Questions and
Answers Graded Exam
concept

✓✓ a mental image that symbolizes an idea, an object, an
event, a behavior, or a person


variable

✓✓ a concept being investigated that is characterized by
different attributes


attributes

✓✓ characteristics of persons or things


relationship

✓✓ variables changing together in a consistent, predictable
fashion


hypothesis

✓✓ a tentative and testable statement about how changes in
one variable are expected to explain changes in another
variable

, independent variable

✓✓ a variable that explains or causes a dependent variable


dependent variable

✓✓ a variable that is being explained or caused by an
independent variable


mediating variable (intervening variable)

✓✓ the mechanism by which an independent variable affects
a dependent variable --> comes b/w an IV and a DV


moderating variable

✓✓ a variable that influences the strength or direction of a
relationship b/w an independent and dependent variable


control variable

✓✓ a moderating variable that we seek to control by holding
it constant in our research design


spurious relationship

✓✓ a relationship b/w two variables that are no longer
related when a third variable is controlled