What are the 4 things that the scientific method allows us to do? - Answer-1. Confront unfamiliar information.
2. Make sense of the world.
3. Make decisions
4. Retrace decisions
Know the three basic assumptions underlying science - Answer-1. Things are happening around us
2. There are patte...
CHILD 400 Exam 1 Questions with
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What are the 4 things that the scientific method allows us to do? - Answer-1. Confront
unfamiliar information.
2. Make sense of the world.
3. Make decisions
4. Retrace decisions
Know the three basic assumptions underlying science - Answer-1. Things are
happening around us
2. There are patterns to the things happening around us and
3. With systemic observation we can find out what those patterns are.
Know the 5 basic steps in the model of scientific inquiry - Answer-1. Ask a question
2. Develop a hypothesis
3. Test the hypothesis
4. Draw conclusions
5. Make the findings available to others.
be familiar with the 13 more specific steps of scientific inquiry. (Know the basic order) -
Answer-1. What are you interested in?
2. What have others already found?
3. What is your question?
4. What are the concepts of most interest?
5. What do you suspect is going on? (Formulate hypothesis)
6. Who is your study about? (define your sample)
7. How will you collect the necessary information?
8. How will you measure your concepts of interest?
9. Convert the collected data into a usable format.
10. What analysis will you use to examine your data?
11. What did you learn from your analysis? (Draw conclusions).
12. Do your original assumptions work? (reconsider theory)
13. Publish your findings or share them with the public.
14. What is the next question we should ask?
What are the 5 goals of science and how do they differ from one another? - Answer-1.
Exploration - The "what" questions
2. Description - The "how much" questions
3. Prediction - The "what if" questions
4. Explanation - The "why" questions
5. Control - The "what now" questions (deals with applied research)
The "what" questions - Answer-Exploration
, The "how much" questions - Answer-Description
The "what if" questions - Answer-Prediction
The "why" questions - Answer-Explanation
The "what now" questions - Answer-Control
What is basic research - Answer-- Focuses on scientific goals 1-4
- It is doing research for the sake of knowledge
What is applied research - Answer-- Focuses on scientific goal 5
- It is using research to improve what we do.
What are variables and their parts: concepts, definitions and attributes? - Answer-A
variable has to have more than one part, otherwise it is a constant.
What are the two ways that a variable can vary? - Answer-Categorical and continuous
Categorical variable - Answer-Differs in type (gender, marital status, race, occupation,
etc.)
Continuous variable - Answer-Varies in amount (age, number of children, years married,
etc.)
What are the different ways that variables can have a relationship with one another? -
Answer-They can have a positive or negative relationship, or no relationship.
What is the difference between correlation and causation? - Answer-Correlation shows
relationship. Whereas causation shows how one influences the other.
What three things must we demonstrate in order to infer causation? - Answer-1.
Covariation
2. Temporal priority (does one variable occur before the other)
3. Alternative explanations have been eliminated.
The outcome variables or variable being acted upon - Answer-Dependent variable
Independent variable - Answer-The variable believed to be causing change or creating
a difference in the outcome of interest.
What is a spurious relationship? - Answer-When two variables appear to be causally
related but their relationship is actually due to some unseen 3rd factor.
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