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7400.685-080 -
Research Methods in FCS
School of Family and Consumer
Sciences
http://www3.uakron.edu/witt/rmfcs/rmfcs.htm
Spring
Semesters - Tuesday Evenings
5:20-7:55pm in 209
Schrank Hall South
Instructor: David D. Witt,
Ph.D.
Key Terms for Chapters 1 and 2
For this homework assignment,
define each of the terms in the tables below. All these terms
come from the textbook chapters
Chapter
1 - Foundations
alternative
hypothesis
anonymity
attribute
causal
cause construct
concept maps
conclusion validity
confidentiality
constructivism
correlational relationship
critical realism
cross-sectional
deductive
dependent variable
ecological fallacy
effect construct
empirical
epistemology
exception fallacy
exhaustive
formative evaluations
hierarchical modeling
hypothesis
hypothetical-deductive model
idiographic
independent variable
inductive
informed consent
Institutional Review Board (IRB)
inverse relationship (negative relationship)
longitudinal
methodology
mutually exclusive
negative relationship
nomothetic
null hypothesis
one-tailed hypothesis
operationalization
positive relationship
positivism
post-positivism
probabilistic
qualitative data
quantitative data
quantitative variable
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relationship
repeated measures
research question
subjectivist
summative evaluations
theoretical
third variable problem
threats to validity
time series
two-tailed hypothesis
unit of analysis
validity
variable
voluntary participation
longitudinal
methodology
mutually exclusive
natural selection theory of knowledge
negative relationship
nomothetic
null hypothesis
one-tailed hypothesis
operationalization
positive relationship
positivism
post-positivism
probabilistic
qualitative data
quantitative data
quantitative variable
relationship
repeated measures
research question
right to service
subjectivist
summative evaluations
theoretical
third variable problem
threats to validity
time series
two-tailed hypothesis
unit of analysis
validity
variable
voluntary participation |
Chapter 2 - Sampling
bell curve
cluster random sampling (area random sample)
expert sampling
external validity
gradient of similarity
heterogeneity sampling
modal instance sample
multi-stage sampling
nonprobability sampling
nonproportional quota sampling
population
population parameter
probability sampling
proportional quota sampling
Proximal Similarity Model
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quota sampling
random selection
response
sample
sampling distribution
sampling error
sampling frame
sampling model
simple random sampling
snowball sampling
standard deviation
standard error
statistic
stratified random sampling
systematic random sampling |
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