Esat stats

type of research that involves in-depth study and evaluation of available information in attempt to explain complex

• Method of solving problems that uses the following steps
• 1. Defining 2. hypothesis 3. gather data problem. 4 analyzing data 5. interpreting data.
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• Goal: immediate solutions
• Approach: real-world settings
• done with a specific question or application in mind

• Goal: theory- driven
• Approach: Laboratory 
• Deals with theoretical concepts, has no immediate concern with application  done just for knowledge 

The part of the experiment that the researcher is manipulating 

• Does the setting have enough of the real-world characteristic to allow generalization to identity
• the reach setting perceived by the research participant in the way intended by the experimenter 

type of research that involves the manipulation of treatments in an attempt to establish cause and effect relationships 

The effect of the independent variable also called yield

educated guess, expected result

the extent to which the results of a study can be attributed to the treatments used in a study

the generalization of the results in a study

• concerned with status
• to describe the status of the study's focus
• common techniques are questions, interviews  normative survey, case studies, job analysis , observational research 

first hand source of data in research, original study

source o f data in research in which an author has evaluated and summarized previous research 

the variability of the sampling distribution 

the degree of difference between each individual score and the central tendency score

a single score that best represents all the scores

Justification that the sample represents some group at large

method of stratifying a populations on some characteristic before random selection of sample