Heather's 4/3 Crossword
Across
- 5. The magnitude of the relationship between the research variable.
- 10. Theory concerned with a critique of society and with envisioning new possibilities.
- 11. Description of the study by a person unconnected with it.
- 12. Type of question that asks respondents to rank concepts along a continuum, such as most to lest important.
- 14. The ratio of one odds to another odds, for example, the ration of the odds of an event in one group to the odds of an event in another group; a 1.0 indicates no difference in the groups.
- 16. A type of unstructured self-report in which individual interviews directed at documenting a person’s life story, or an aspect of it that has developed over the life course.
- 18. Usually continuous variables but can sometimes be dichotomous variables.
- 19. Used when multiple measures are obtained from the same subjects; tests for analysis of variance by ranks can be used.
- 21. Study published in professional journal that is not preappraised for quality or use in practice.
- 23. One in which the researcher identifies population strata and determines how many participants are needed from each stratum.
- 25. Nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio are the four levels of this.
- 27. Standards from a large and representative sample.
- 28. Evidence collected through the human senses.
- 32. Involves using information about people’s characteristics to create comparable groups.
- 37. Rigor of a study.
- 38. Analyst codes for context; locating and linking action-interaction within a framework of subconcepts that give it meaning and enable it to explain what interactions are occurring.
- 40. Imposes a duty on researchers to minimize harm and maximize benefits.
- 41. Branch of psychology concerned with the theory and methods of psychological measurement.
- 42. A process that involves two types of checks: Check for outliers and wild code.
- 43. Encompasses biases from preexisting differences between groups.
Down
- 1. Used by researches to estimate sample size.
- 2. A richly thorough depiction of research settings and the sample of study participants (or events).
- 3. Type of journal that provides research articles free of charge online.
- 4. Research with roots in sociology that seeks to describe and understand the key social psychological processes that occur in social settings.
- 6. The vast majority of RCTs, in which the researchers hypothesize that the intervention is superior to the control condition.
- 7. A listing of each variable together with information about placement in the file, codes associated with the values of the variable, and other basic information.
- 8. Sampling in which researchers select time periods during which observations will occur.
- 9. Error terms in Simple Linear Regression.
- 13. A matrix that plots time on one dimension and events or activities on the other (usually a horizontal line).
- 15. Specific query researchers want to answer in addressing the research problem.
- 17. A relationship or association between two variables.
- 20. Observation from a fixed location.
- 22. A process in which researchers provide feedback to participants about emerging interpretations and obtain participant’s reactions.
- 24. A symbolic comparison, using figurative language to evoke a visual analogy.
- 26. Type of hypothesis that has a theory as a starting point: Researches deduce that if the theory is true, then certain outcomes can be expected.
- 28. Also referred to as cognitive anthropology; and focuses on the cognitive world of a culture.
- 29. Sampling to the point at which no new information is obtained and redundancy is achieved.
- 30. Assigning numbers to represent the amount of an attribute present in a person or object.
- 31. When qualitative data are sometimes converted into numeric codes that can be analyzed quantitatively.
- 33. A brief description of the study placed at the beginning of the article.
- 34. Assesses a programs net impact—impacts that can be attributed to the program, over and above the effects of a counterfactual.
- 35. Systematic inquiry that uses disciplined methods to answer questions or solve problems.
- 36. The 3rd broad principle described in the Belmont Report that includes participants’ right to fair treatment and their right to privacy.
- 39. Group of participants used in a study whose performance on an outcome is used to evaluate the performance of the treatment group on the same outcome.