EDF 6437 MIDTERM EXAM SOLVED CORRECTLY!!
/. When consuming research, you should go in the order of... - Answer-1. Results
2. Methods
3. Discussion
4. Intro
/.3 levels of investigation - Answer-Description, prediction, and control
/.Description - Answer-Collection of observations and facts which examines other
possible relations and leads to a hypothesis
/.Prediction - Answer-Repeated observations revealing relationships between events
/.Control - Answer-Highest level of understanding; determines functional relations
/.Experiment - Answer-Controlled comparison of some measure of the phenomena of
interest under 2 or more different conditions in which one factor at a time differs from
one condition to another
/.External validity - Answer-Results can be generalized to other subjects, settings, or
behaviors
/.Internal validity - Answer-Assures that measured changes in behaviors are due to
manipulation and not due to uncontrolled variables
/.Qualitative research - Answer-Narrated with interviews and individualized accounts of
events
/.Group Design Research - Answer-one group gets the intervention, one group is the
control (no intervention); uses stats; compares between groups
/.single subject design - Answer-a research design that requires only one or a few
subjects in order to conduct an entire experiment
/.Causation - Answer-Something always happens because of something else
/.Correlation - Answer-Variables are consistently present to a certain degree and
something happens
/. When consuming research, you should go in the order of... - Answer-1. Results
2. Methods
3. Discussion
4. Intro
/.3 levels of investigation - Answer-Description, prediction, and control
/.Description - Answer-Collection of observations and facts which examines other
possible relations and leads to a hypothesis
/.Prediction - Answer-Repeated observations revealing relationships between events
/.Control - Answer-Highest level of understanding; determines functional relations
/.Experiment - Answer-Controlled comparison of some measure of the phenomena of
interest under 2 or more different conditions in which one factor at a time differs from
one condition to another
/.External validity - Answer-Results can be generalized to other subjects, settings, or
behaviors
/.Internal validity - Answer-Assures that measured changes in behaviors are due to
manipulation and not due to uncontrolled variables
/.Qualitative research - Answer-Narrated with interviews and individualized accounts of
events
/.Group Design Research - Answer-one group gets the intervention, one group is the
control (no intervention); uses stats; compares between groups
/.single subject design - Answer-a research design that requires only one or a few
subjects in order to conduct an entire experiment
/.Causation - Answer-Something always happens because of something else
/.Correlation - Answer-Variables are consistently present to a certain degree and
something happens
