Research Methods Basic Research #2

The essential quality of public verification implies:

that our study can be replicated

What does it mean that a hypothesis must make a positive statement?

it must specify the existence of a relationship, a difference, or some other treatment effect

When we say that a study involves a solvable problem, we mean that

we can create operational definitions of our research variables

A hypothesis must be a synthetic statement. What is a synthetic statement?

a statement that might be true

a statement that might be false

a statement that can be addressed with evidence

Dr. Jackson conducts learning studies with white rats. When he refers to his rats in his report, he should refer to them as:

subjects

Aristotle was known to have collected many natural specimens -- such as plants and small animals. He would examine specific features of the animals (e.g., a bird's wings), and then discuss the general principle how bird might fly. Aristotle is using

inductive reasoning

Whereas, a theory ____, a hypothesis ____.

refers to a general principle; refers to one particular study

Sigmund Freud would take careful notes each time he interviewed his clients about their symptoms. Later, when he was promoting his clinical methods or his theories of psychopathology, he would frequently report direct quotes from himself and his clients during therapy sessions. This would be an example of:

qualitative research

A researcher is surveying teenagers' attitudes about smoking. She reports the percentage of her participants who smoke cigarettes and the average number of cigarettes that they smoke each day. This would be an example of:

quantitative research

When we conduct "theory driven" research, we develop hypotheses for our studies using

deductive reasoning

I develop a testable hypothesis in light of an established theory in my field. I'm using___ to create my hypothesis.

deductive reasoning

We say that theories are important to science because theories tend to be self-correcting. Which of the following factors contributes most clearly to the self-correcting nature of theories?

public verification

What does a theory and a hypothesis have in common? (3 parts)

both involve a statement of relationship

both must be testable

both must be falsifiable