Across
- 4. A smaller group selected from a population for a study
- 7. The entire group of individuals, items, or data that a study is focused on
- 8. When one event directly causes another; a change in one variable directly leads to a change in another. It’s necessary to have covariation, a time-order relationship, and the elimination of plausible alternative causes.
- 11. Activities and beliefs that are claimed to be scientific by their proponents–and may appear to be scientific at first glance–but are not
- 13. A school wants to survey students about cafeteria food satisfaction using the grade levels 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th. They randomly select 10 students from each grade instead of choosing randomly from the whole school. What kind of sample is this?
- 14. A doctor doing a clinical trial for a new type of medicine where they randomly assign patients to either an experimental group or a control group. What kind of study is this?
Down
- 1. Researchers came up with the question “what is people’s favorite type of music?” They then developed a questionnaire asking, “what is your favorite music genre?” and gave it to 100 people. What study method is this?
- 2. Does a new after-school reading program improve students' test scores? The researcher assigns students into two different groups non-randomly. What study method is this?
- 3. A study that is aimed to determine the effect of studying hours on exam scores, but it does not take into account the knowledge participants have on the subject.
- 5. The factor that is changed or controlled in an experiment to test its effects on the dependent variable
- 6. For example, how fast an ice cube melts
- 9. A statistical measure that shows the relationship between two variables
- 10. Has a few key features such as empirical questions, systematic empiricism, and public knowledge. It also has to be falsifiable.
- 12. A sampling method where every individual or item in a population has an equal chance of being selected