Across
- 3. Which sampling method does a researcher randomly select a certain number of people from a population for their research?
- 5. When you're making a causal inference, you need to meet 3 conditions such as, covariation, time-order relationship and elimination of plausible alternative clauses. What is this called?
- 6. What kind of science is it called when people believe the earth is flat?
- 7. What is a variable in an experiment that is manipulated and is not affected by the other variables?
- 8. What is the relationship between two variables, that uses a range of -1 to 1 values called?
- 10. An experiment is conducted to observe the benefits of electrolytes on an athlete’s performance. In this experiment, some athletes took more time to rest and recover than others. What kind of variable would this be considered?
- 11. What is it called when you are randomly selecting a random number of people from a population for a research study?
- 12. A researcher is conducting an experiment on how different types of soil affects the growth process of a flower. In this specific scenario, what variable would the height of the flower be?
- 13. A researcher wants to figure out which college has the most and best student life in the Midwest. The researcher asks a set of fixed questions to receive answers and opinions of the students. This is what concept?
Down
- 1. After the conclusion of a group of researchers study in how the changing of soil would affect the growth of a garden vegetable, they decide to repeat the study, only this time, they change the amount of water that the plants receive. What kind of st would this be considered as?
- 2. If researchers wanted to study whether or not highschoolers learning math on paper or on a computer screen is better. They would keep them in their math classes since they are already in class and it would be no ideal to mess around with their schedules, the researchers would just make the condition go to them rather than the students going to different classrooms with different conditions. What is this experimental method called?
- 4. A study is being conducted on University of Minnesota students to find out the average GPA for the whole college. The researcher divides the total population into multiple groups by what college they are in and randomly selects students from each of the groups. Which sampling method is this?
- 6. When selecting a random sample, where do researchers normally pull participants from?
- 9. Being able to comply with new research and discoveries, constructive peer review, considers new findings, allows critique, accurate outcomes, precise measurements, and reduces claims of usefulness are all key features of which concept?
