Ch. 2 Research Methods

Basic Research (aka basic science)

applied research (aka applied science)

cross-sectional study vs. longitudinal study

validity

reliability

hindsight bias

What kind of research method would I use if say I wanted to prove that eggs CAUSE gas?

operational definitions

hypothesis

population

sample

random assignment

Independent Variable (I.V.)

Dependent variable (D.V.)

extraneous or confounding variables

single blind experiment

participant bias

false consensus effect

mean

median

mode

normal curve (aka Bell Curve)

standard deviation