Journ 3950
Terms
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- Claim
- Assertion or Conclusion
- Warrant
- Connects claims and evidence
- Research
- Testing and questioning what we know and don't know.
- Positivist Paradigm
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Singular/Obj
Indep
Value-free unbiased
Quantitative
Formal/Impersonal Voice - Naturalist Paradigm
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Multiple
Interdependent
Value laden and biased
Qualitative
Informal/Personal Voice - Communication
- how we send verbal and nonverbal messages
- applied research
- Can't be used as general research
- Basic research
- tests theories
- Variable
- concept with two or more values
- Indp Variable
- concept that influences the variable
- Dependent variable
- Variable that comes from the indp variable.
- Ordered Variable
- can be assigned numbers, age, weight
- nominal variable
- can be classified in terms of gender, race, etc.
- Hpothesis
- a tent answer about the nature of two variables
- non directional hypothesis
- it doesn't specify the nature of the relationship
- Interaction effects
- effects cause by multiple ind variables.
- Meta Analytic
- summarizes alot of studies
- Operationalization
- Identify and determine how to measure what you want to study.
- Conceptual Defin
- describes what something means by relating it to other concepts (like love is a deep feeling toward another person)
- Operational Defin
- describing a concept in how it will be measured like love will mean (holding hands)
- Conceptual fit
- strong linkage between conceptual and operational defin.
- Measurment
- determing character, size, quantity of researches observations.
- Triangulation
- study something in multiple ways with a single study
- Measurement Scale
- assigning numbers or symbols to designate charateristics
- Nominal Measurement scale
- classifies a variable into different categories
- Internal validity
- accuracy drawn from a particular study
- external validity
- can conclusions from a particular study be applied to other people/places, etc.
- Reliability coefficient
- provides a numerical indi that determines the relaiability or error of the study. .70 or greater it is reliable.
- internal consistency
- items on a measurement give similar results
- criterion related validity
- when one measurement technique gives the same results as another measurement that is valid.
- Ecological Validity
- The extent to which the conditions simulated in the laboratory reflect real life conditions