Deck 6: Titlequantitative Research Designs: Recognizing the Overall Plan for a Studytitle

Question 1

Which of the following describes the major intention of choosing a correlational design?

A) To provide evidence of a cause-and-effect relationship between two variables
B) To descriptively describe more than one variable
C) To measure the association between two variables
D) To compare two groups

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Which of the following is a difference between true experiments and quasi-experiments?

A) Use of statistical comparisons
B) Measurement of an outcome
C) Use of a treatment
D) The assignment of participants to groups

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which of the following are characteristics of a single-subject research study?

A) The intervention is given one time
B) Individuals assigned to groups one-by-one
C) A narrow research topic
D) Sophisticated statistical analyses

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Which of the following best describes the conclusions that can be drawn from a quasi-experiment?

A) The researcher can make moderate claims that one variable causes an effect in another
B) The researcher can make strong claims that the results will apply to the general population
C) The researcher can make strong claims that one variable causes an effect in another
D) The researcher can make no claims about one variable causing an effect in another

Question 5

Why are groups compared in an experiment?

A) To isolate whether the treatment affects the outcome
B) Because they differ in important characteristics
C) To identify if the groups statistically differ
D) To eliminate whether groups have different experiences

Question 6

Which of the following is a difference between a correlational study and a quasi-experiment?

A) Use of two or more) groups for comparison
B) Use of statistical comparisons
C) Measurement of variables
D) Use of graphical plots to examine the results

Question 7

Which of the following describes the major intention of choosing a true experimental design?

A) Measure the association between the treatment variable and the outcome
B) Provide evidence of a cause-and-effect relationship between the treatment variable and outcome
C) To quantitatively describe the different levels of a treatment variable
D) To describe the process of implementing a treatment variable

Question 8

Below are several characteristics of experiments. Identify whether the characteristic best matches a true experiment, quasi-experiment, and/or single-subject experiment by placing an "X" in the appropriate columns) to the right.

Question 9

A survey research design study might also be called…

A) An intervention trial
B) A multiple baseline design
C) A population study
D) A randomized control trial RCT)

Question 10

Which of the following describes the major intention of choosing a survey design?

A) Establish a cause-and-effect relationship
B) Measure the impact of a treatment on an outcome
C) Describe characteristics of a population
D) Make predictions based on the relationship between two variables

Question 11

Which one of the characteristics below best distinguishes quasi-experimental research from correlational research?

A) The measurement of variables
B) The use of association statistics
C) The use of an intervention
D) The use of random selection

Question 12

Which of the following statements explains why a large number of participants is important in survey research?

A) It makes it more likely that the results will apply to the population
B) It gives evidence that the researcher used a good measure
C) It makes it more likely that one variable caused an effect in another variable
D) It indicates that the researcher put in sufficient effort

Question 13

Which quantitative research design is considered the gold standard?

A) Survey research design
B) Quasi-experiment design
C) True experiment design
D) Correlational research design

Question 14

What is a research design?

A) Plan for determining the purpose of a research study
B) The steps of the research process
C) A type of strategy in quantitative/qualitative research
D) Procedures for collecting, analyzing, and reporting data

Question 15

An important aspect of an experiment is to select independent variables that can be manipulated. Which one of the following is a variable that can be manipulated in an experiment?

A) Classes that junior high girls attend
B) Self-esteem of junior high girls
C) The parents of junior high girls
D) Attitudes of junior high girls

Question 16

Which of the following describes the purpose of using random assignment of participants to treatment conditions?

A) To control for confounding variables
B) To facilitate the use of outcome measures
C) To measure extra variables that may be important
D) To allow for generalizations to be made to the population