WGU C224 Study Guide Research Foundations Exam Expected 2024/2025 (Verified Answers).

WGU C224 Study Guide Research Foundations Exam Expected 2024/2025 (Verified Answers). 1. Deductive Reasoning : Drawing conclusions. Logical deductive process working down - going from big to small. ex. All books sold at that store are new, and all the books I bought came from that store. Therefore, all the books I own are new. 2. Inductive Reasoning : Starts specific. Accepting conclusions. Going from small to big. Ex. The water at the beach has been about 75 degrees anytime I visit in July. Today is July 15th, so I expect the water will be about 75 degrees when I go to the beach tomorrow. 3. Epistemology : the overall pursuit of knowledge, not a specific knowledge con- tention. The study of knowledge itself. 4. Rule of Parsimony : Simple and concise, succinct 5. Criterion of Falsifiability : if it can't be rejected, then its going in the right direction 6. The Principle of Evidence : researchers conduct research to acquire evidence that may support a theory WGU C224 Study Guide Research Foundations Exam Expected 2024/2025 (Verified Answers) 2 / 10 and/or hypothesis. Researchers do not attempt to prove what is true. 7. Ontology : Inherent understanding. Nature of reality/truth 8. Experimental Research : Quantitative. Random assignment - not random selec- tion. 9. Quantitation Research Methods : Experimental and Non-Experimental 10. Non-Experimental Research Methods : Correlation and Casual Comparative 11. Correlation research method : Quantitative. A process to collect data to deter- mine if a relationship exists between two or more quantitative variables, and to what degree. 12. Correlation Coefficient : Strength and direction of a relationship between two variables. range of +1 to -1 13. Positive Correlation : r=+1 (points follow along a line) 14. Negative Correlation : r=-1 (no correlation is a 0 and looks like a gun shot all over) 15. Variables 3 / 10 : a condition or characteristic that can take on different values or categories (such as age, GPA, gender, etc.) 16. Quantitative Variable : a variable that varies in degree or amount of a phenom- enon (ex. Temperature, weight, GPA, reading performance, etc.) 17. Categorical Variables : a variable that is made up of different types of categories of a phenomenon (genderethnicity, type of school, teaching method, religion, social class) 18. Descriptive Statistics : Goal is to describe, summarize, or make sense of a particular set of data.