Research Designs II
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| Systematic observations of relationships between two or more variables in natural setting refers to what research design? | Exploratory
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| What is the focus of exploratory research? | It predict variable effects or tests relationships within clinical theory.
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| What kind of research describes a population? | Descriptive research
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| What type of research observes relationships between variables? | exploratory
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| What type of research looks for cause and effect relationships? | experimental
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| Testable factors identifiable prior to outcomes is prospective or retrospective? | prospective
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| Testable factors identifiable after data collection is prospective or retrospective? | retrospective
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| In what kind of study does the researcher follow a cohort of subjects over time, performing repeated measurements at prescribed intervals? | Longitudinal Study
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| What is the major advantage of a longitudinal study? | The ability to accumulate data through intensive documentation of growth and change on the same individuals.
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| In this type of study, the researcher studies a stratified group of subjects at one point in time and draws conclusions about a population by comparing the characteristics of those strata. | Cross-sectional study
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| Which approach, cross-sectional or longitudinal, is used more often because of its efficiency? | cross-sectional study
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| What is the major threat to validity in a cross-sectional study? | sample selection
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| What do many of the extraneous variables that interfere in cross-sectional studies pertain to? | cohort effects
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| Effects that are not age specific but are due to a subjects generation or time of birth are known as? | cohort effects
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| What is the purpose of a correlational study? | To describe the nature of existing relationships among variables.
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| Data from which king of study often provide the rationale for clinical decisions or the generation of hypothesis? | correlational studies
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| What kind of study is designed to predict a behavior or response based on the observed relationships between a certain behavior and other variables | predictive correlational study
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| What approach is especially useful for validation of diagnostic and prognostic information? | predictive correlational study
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| What is a method of epidemiologic investigation in which groups of individuals are selected on the basis of whether or not they have the disorder under study? | case-control study
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| In a case-control study, those that have the condition being studied are considered the ___? | case
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| In a case-control study, those that do not have the condition being studied are considered the ___? | control
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