Unit 3 Review Guide

Validity Re-read the readings on validity (both internal and external) and review your notes on specific strategies that can be used to ensure validity.

• Internal Validity

  • Definition

  • Strategies for ensuring internal validity

  • Confounding Variables

    • How to control for confounding variables

• External Validity

  • Definition

  • Strategies for ensuring external validity

  • Generalizability

Quantitative Methods I recommend re-reading and reviewing notes on the Quantitative Method reading. Any quantitative methods mentioned in that reading may appear on the exam.

• What is quantitative research?

• How is it different from qualitative?

• Examples of quantitative methods

  • Definitions

  • Benefits/Limitations of the methods

  • When to use those methods

Qualitative Methods I recommend re-reading and reviewing notes on the Qualitative Method reading. Any qualitative methods mentioned in that reading may appear on the exam.

• What is qualitative research?

• How is it different from quantitative?

• Examples of qualitative methods

  • Definitions

  • Benefits/Limitations of the methods

  • When to use those methods

Ethics Basic concepts concerning ethics will be covered on the exam.

• Informed Consent

  • Defined

  • When to use

  • How to use

• Treatment of Participants