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CHAPTER OVERVIEW What Research Is and Isn’t A Model of Scientific Inquiry Different Types of Research What Method to Use When Applied and Basic Research
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CHAPTER OVERVIEW

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Page 1: CHAPTER OVERVIEW

CHAPTER OVERVIEW

• What Research Is and Isn’t• A Model of Scientific Inquiry• Different Types of Research• What Method to Use When• Applied and Basic Research

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WHAT IS RESEARCH ALL ABOUT, ANYWAY?

Increasing our understanding of how and why we behave the way

we do!!

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A THEORY

• Organizes information• Helps explain past events• Predicts new events

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RESEARCH IS BASED ON THE WORK OF OTHERS• Past research

guides new research

• Research is NOT copying the work of others

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RESEARCH CAN BE REPLICATED• Repeatability is a

sign of credible science

• Replication guides future research

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RESEARCH IS GENERALIZABLE

• Research should apply to situations outside of the study setting

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RESEARCH IS NOT DONE IN INTELLECTUAL ISOLATION

• It is based on some logical rationale

• It is tied to theory

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RESEARCH IS “DOABLE”

• Good research questions can be translated into projects that can be done!

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RESEARCH IS ONGOING• Research

generates new questions

• Research is incremental

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RESEARCH IS APOLITICAL

• Research should have the betterment of society as its ultimate goal

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SCIENTIFIC METHOD

• A shared philosophical approach to understanding the world

• A standard sequence of steps in formulating and answering questions

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The steps in the research process

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QUESTIONS

• Asking a question• Identifying a need

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IDENTIFYING IMPORTANT FACTORS

• Not fully investigated• Advance understanding• Can be investigated• Are interesting• Lead to more questions

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FORMULATING A HYPOTHESIS

• “If…then” statements• Objective extension of the original

question• In a testable form

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COLLECTING RELEVANT INFORMATION

• Hypotheses posit a relationship between different factors

• Data are collected that will confirm or refute the hypothesis

• Hypotheses are testable (not provable)

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TESTING THE HYPOTHESIS

• Inferential statistics – Separate effects of factors from

effects of chance– Assign a probability level to obtained

data

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WORKING WITH THE HYPOTHESIS

• If the hypothesis is confirmed– Plan new research

• If the hypothesis is refuted– Try to understand what other factors

might be important

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RECONSIDERING THE THEORY

• Theories can be modified• Leading to new questions

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DIFFERENT TYPES OF RESEARCH

• Nature of question asked• Method used to answer question• Degree of precision of method

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NONEXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

• Describe relationships between variables

• Cannot test cause-and-effect relationships

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DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH

• Describes characteristics of existing phenomena

• Provides a broad picture• Serves as basis for other types of

research

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HISTORICAL RESEARCH

• Describes past events in the context of other past or current events

• Primary and secondary sources of data

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CORRELATIONAL RESEARCH

• Asks what several events have in common

• Asks whether knowing one event can allow prediction of another event

• Does not imply causation

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QUALITATIVE RESEARCH

• Examines behavior in natural social, cultural, and political contexts

• Usually results in non-quantitative data

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EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

• Tries to discover causal relationships

• Two types– True experimental research– Quasi-experimental research

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TRUE EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

• Participants assigned to groups• Treatment variable is controlled by

researcher• Control of potential causes of

behavior

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QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

• Participants are preassigned to groups

• Useful when researcher cannot manipulate variables

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WHAT METHOD TO USE WHEN?Differences

between groups?

CorrelationalHistorical research

Descriptive research

Are you studying

events that occurred in

the past?

Are you studying

events that primarily occur in

the present?

Are you studying the relationship

between variables (but not the effects

of one on the other)?

Are the participants preassigned to groups?

YesNo

NoYes

Experimental Research

YesNo

Yes

No

Yes

Non-experimental Research

True experimental

Quasi-experimental

Time to reconsider the question

No

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APPLIED VS. BASIC RESEARCH

• Basic research has no immediate application

• Applied research has immediate applications