Across
- 2. these are never proved or disproved, but supported or not supported by data
- 6. a perplexing or enigmatic situation that a researcher wants to address through disciplined inquiry (2 words)
- 9. the process of translating verbal data into numeric form
- 12. these have theories as starting points (2 words)
- 14. a broad area of interest
- 15. contains a finite number of values between any two points (2 words)
- 16. these state that there is no relationship between independent and dependent variables (2 words)
- 17. this seeks to describe and understand the key social psychological processes that occur in a social setting (2 words)
- 18. an attribute of a study with limited variability
- 20. the people being studied in a quantitative study
Down
- 1. the people being studied in a qualitative study
- 3. comprised of the study participants
- 4. articulates the nature, context, and significance of a problem (2 words)
- 5. an experimental study in medical or epidemiological research (2 words)
- 7. the overall location for the research
- 8. researchers do this to their aims through problem statements, statements of purpose, research questions or hypotheses
- 10. the specific accomplishments hoped to achieve by conducting a study
- 11. a generalization inferred from observed relationships (2 words)
- 13. a systematic, abstract explanation of some aspect of reality
- 19. a variable that affects the strength or direction of an association between two variables