Research Ch. 2 Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| Variables | Attributes of sampling units, events, or conditions that can take on two or more values, or observed or measured events or conditions that vary or are likely to vary. |
| Varied Replication | Repeating (replicating) a previous study but with some new twist. |
| Working Hypotheses | An empirically testable supposition, the experimental hypothesis. |
| Operational Definitions | The meaning of a variable in terms of the operations (empirical conditions) used to measure it or the experimental method involved in its determination. |
| Parsimony | The quality of economy in a statement or proposition, so that it is not overly wordy or unduly complex. |
| Replication | Research designed to assess the repeat-ability of a result. |
| Serendipity | Making a chance discovery. |
| Theoretical Definitions | The meaning of a variable in abstract or conceptual terms. |
| Theory | A set of proposed explanatory statements or propositions connected by logical arguments and by explicit and implicit assumptions. |
| Variable | An event or a condition the researcher observes or measures or plans to investigate that is likely to vary. |
| Coherence | The high degree to which the components of a theory or hypothesis "stick together" logically |
| Construct | Abstract expression, term, or concept that is formulated ("constructed") to serve as a casual or descriptive explanation. |
| Context of Discovery | Included the initial hunches, questions, or insights and the resulting conjectural statements or suppositions that give direction to researchers' observations. |
| Context of Justification | Included the empirical evaluation of conjectural statements or suppositions and the evidence-based defense of conclusions and generalizations. |
| Dependent Variable | A variable the changes in which are viewed as dependent on changes in one or more other variables. |
| Experimental Hypotheses | |
| Falsifiability | Karl Popper's proposition that a conjecture or theoretical assertion is scientific only if it can be stated in such a way that it can, if incorrect, be refuted by some empirical means. |
| Hypothesis | A conjectural statement or supposition |
| Hypothesis-generating Heuristics | Strategies or circumstances that lead to testable hypotheses. |
| Independent Variable | A variable on which the dependent variable depends; in experiments, a variable that the experimenter manipulates to determine the degree to which there are effects on another variable. |
| Moderator Variables | Conditions that alter the relationship between independent and dependent variables. |
| Occam's Razor | The principle that explanations should be as parsimonious as possible. |
| Variables | Attributions of sampling units, events, or conditions that can take on two or more values, or observed or measured events or conditions that vary or are likely to vary. |
| Varied Replication | Repeating (replicating) a previous study but with some new twist. |
| Working Hypotheses | An empirically testable supposition, the experimental hypothesis. |
| Operational Definitions | The meaning of a variable in terms of the operations (empirical conditions) used to measure it or the experimental method involved in its determination |
| Parsimony | The quality of economy in a statement or proposition, so that it is not overly wordy or unduly complex. |
| Replication | Research designed to assess the repeatability |
| Serendipity | Making a chance discovery |
| Theoretical Definitions | The meaning of a variable in abstract or conceptual terms. |
| Theory | A set of proposed explanatory statements or propositions connected by logical arguments and by explicit and implicit assumptions. |
| Variable | An event or a condition the researcher observes or measures or plans to investigate that is likely to vary. |
| Coherence | The high degree to which the components of a theory or hypothesis "stick together" logically. |
| Construct | Abstract expression, term, or concept that is formulated (constructed) to serve as a casual or descriptive explanation. |
| Context of Discovery | Included the initial hunches, questions, or insights and the resulting conjectural statements or suppositions that give direction to researchers observations. |
| Context of Justification | Includes the empirical evaluation of conjectural statements or suppositions and the evidence-based defense of conclusions and generalizations |
| Dependent Variable | A variable the changes in which are viewed as dependent on changes in one or more other variables. |
| Experimental Hypothesis | The experimenter's working hypothesis; also an alternative to the null hypothesis (Ho) in null hypothesis significance testing. |
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