Research Design

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Access Self-report Questionnaires Online Content validity Demand characteristics Archives of data and stimuli What is a case study? What is attrition? What is anonymity? What is a closed-ended question? What is a double blind study? What is a comparison group? What is an experimental group? What is a pretest-posttest design? What is a pre-test? What is a post-test? What is a longitudinal design? What is a variable? What is cross-sectional design? What is a carryover effect? What is confounding? What is convenience sampling? What are factors? What is a within-participants design? What is a double-barreled question? What are passive research designs? What is the disadvantage of a double-barreled question? What is a leading question? How can you avoid leading questions? What is an experiment? How is a dependent variable different from an independent variable? What are subjects? What are before-after research designs? What is the difference between a field experiment and an experiment? What are concepts? What is a pilot study? What are the differences between closed-ended questions and open-ended questions? What is correlational research? What are cohort effects? What is counterbalancing? What is a planned comparison? When do we use planned comparisons in research? What are experimental hypotheses? What is a difference between a hypothesis and a null hypothesis? What is related factorial design? What is a controlled experiment? What is a factorial design? How is a between-subjects factor different from a within-subjects factor? What is a condition? What is a constant? What is the likert scale? What is a manipulation? How is counterbalancing performed? What are the types of sampling? What is validity? What is the scientific method? What is observational research? What is a cover story? How is a cover story useful to a study? How do cover stories help a researcher obtain more honest reporting from a participant? What is laboratory research? What are the advantages/disadvantages of laboratory research? What is a repeated measure design? What is operationalization? How do you perform operationalization? What is a selection bias? What are maturation threats?

What is a baseline? What is dichotomous? What is a case-control study? What is a control group? What are A-B-A designs? What is an open-ended question? What is external validity? What is face validity? What is internal validity? What is snowball sampling? What are bivariate statistics? What are conceptual variables? What are intervening variables? What is a pilot study? What is a sampling frame? What is concurrent validity? What is convergent validity? What is an extraneous variable? What is construct validity? What is predictive validity? What is discriminant validity? What is a literature review? What is a box plot? What is a moderating variable? What is a mediator? How is deception important for obtaining truthful information from a subject? What is qualitative research? What is quantitative research? How is construct validity different than external validity? How is construct validity different than internal validity? What are different types of confounds? What is ethnography? What is participatory action research ? What are the advantages/disadvantages of a single blind study? What is a reversal design? What is a multiple baseline design? What is a nested design? What is a data point? What is inclusion criteria? What is history effects?