AP Psych

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Qualitative Research

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Focus exploring and understanding peoples thoughts, feelings, and experiences

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Quanitative Research

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Collecting numerical data that can be measured and analyzed statistically

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Experimental Research

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Research actively manipulates one or more variable to observe and measure variables as they naturally occur

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Non-experimental

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Researchers observe and measure variables as they naturally occur

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Case study

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In depth investigation, New, rare, and unique, Typically, equalities, but can include Quan research

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Correlational Study

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How the variable are related, Not cause and effect, type of quantitative

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Positive correlation

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Variables go in the same direction

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Positive Correlation

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Variables go in the opposite direction

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Negative Correlation

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Variable go in the opposite direction

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Meta-Analysis

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Summarize and combine results from multiple studies on a single stage topic