RESEARCH METHODS EXAM 2 EXAM PREP
2026 Q&A COMPLETE REVIEW WITH
ACCURATE ANSWERS GUARANTEED PASS
◉ Direction or temporal order
Answer: cause must precede effect in time
◉ Nonspuriousness or ruling out alternate hypothesis
Answer: observed correlation between two variables cannot be
explained away by a third variable. relationship between viewing a
violent movie and involvement in violent criminality could be due to
a third variable like feelings of rage toward
◉ Cross sectional
Answer: observation made at one point in time and cannot
determine causal order
◉ Longitudinal
Answer: data that is collected at 2 or more points in time from
different samples of the same population
, ◉ repeated cross sectional
Answer: goal is normally to determine a change in population over
time
◉ Event based cohort
Answer: study of one group who have all the same experiences or
starting point over time
◉ fixed sample panel
Answer: data collected at 2 or more points in time from the same
sample. BEST FOR TESTING CASUAL HYPOTHESIS
◉ Random assignment
Answer: participant has an equal chance of being assigned to the
experimental and control groups
◉ Control Group
Answer: an experiment can have more than one experimental group
if the goal is to test several versions of the treatment
◉ Measurements of the outcome
Answer: the posttest that is given to measure the change in the
dependent variable in both groups
2026 Q&A COMPLETE REVIEW WITH
ACCURATE ANSWERS GUARANTEED PASS
◉ Direction or temporal order
Answer: cause must precede effect in time
◉ Nonspuriousness or ruling out alternate hypothesis
Answer: observed correlation between two variables cannot be
explained away by a third variable. relationship between viewing a
violent movie and involvement in violent criminality could be due to
a third variable like feelings of rage toward
◉ Cross sectional
Answer: observation made at one point in time and cannot
determine causal order
◉ Longitudinal
Answer: data that is collected at 2 or more points in time from
different samples of the same population
, ◉ repeated cross sectional
Answer: goal is normally to determine a change in population over
time
◉ Event based cohort
Answer: study of one group who have all the same experiences or
starting point over time
◉ fixed sample panel
Answer: data collected at 2 or more points in time from the same
sample. BEST FOR TESTING CASUAL HYPOTHESIS
◉ Random assignment
Answer: participant has an equal chance of being assigned to the
experimental and control groups
◉ Control Group
Answer: an experiment can have more than one experimental group
if the goal is to test several versions of the treatment
◉ Measurements of the outcome
Answer: the posttest that is given to measure the change in the
dependent variable in both groups
