research methods quiz 1

Components EBP triangle/diamond

Client perspectives, clinical expertise, external evidence, diamond includes internal evidence

Scientific method

Identify a problem, state, a research questions/hypothesis, collect, analyze, and interpret data, determine your findings, relate back to answer

Getting information

Tradition, authority, common sense, scientific method

Interpret

Identify argument, support argument, access info

Evaluate

Quality of inferences, quality of evidence, quality of argument

Metacognate

Monitor own understanding, check, biases, and assumptions, monitor, thinking strategies

Science

Disconfirms, looking for proof something is wrong

Pseudoscience

Confirms, everything you look for is real/proven

What is the difference between science and pseudoscience?

Science doesn’t advocate or market, pseudoscience does

Primary

Original research

Secondary

Reviews and textbooks

Tertiary

Wikipedia, Asha leader

Quantitative

Numerical, test scores

Qualitative

Non-numerical, interview

Non-experimental

Observation, unable to manipulate example hearing versus hearing impaired

Experimental

Learning the effect of variables, able to manipulate example which child gets what treatment

Independent variable

The cause, reason for change

Dependent variable

The effect/consequence

Active independent variable

Can be manipulated

Attribute independent variable

Can’t be manipulated

Bivalent

A design that studies the effects of two levels of independent variable on the dependent variable

Multivalent

A design that studies the effects of more than two levels of independent variable on the dependent variable

Factorial

Study the simultaneous effects of more than one independent variable up to five on the dependent variable, is an interaction

Continuous

Measured along a continuum, can be any value within a range, example test scores

Categorical

Each value can only be named/label mold, example mild, moderate severe

Control

The constants, ensuring results are not skewed

extraneous

Extra factors that aren’t being investigated, but can affect a results

What does Pico stand for

Patient/problem, intervention, comparison, outcome