Methods of Collecting Data

Which is the best data collection technique?

A farmer wants to know which is the best food for causing his horses to gain some needed weight-Brand A or Brand B.

• Experiment

• Simulation

• Observation

• Survey

Which is the best data collection technique?

Psychologists want to know what percentage of college students will say something if they see racism happening on campus.

• Experiment

• Simulation

• Observation

Which is the best data collection technique?

Car safety scientists want to see the effect of a car flipping in a motor vehicle accident on a passenger who is NOT buckled in the back seat.

• Experiment

• Simulation

• Observation

This research method is a technique for ascertaining the self – reported attitudes or behaviors of a particular group, usually by questioning a representative, random sample of the group.

• Survey
• Observational
• Experiments
• Simulation

This is a method of research where the researcher carefully and systematically observes and records behavior without interfering

• Observational
• Experiments
• Simulation

• Survey

This is a method of research where an investigator manipulates one or more factors (independent variables) to observe the effect on some behavior or mental process (the dependent variable).

• Experiments
• Case Study
• Survey
• Correlational

The advantage of this method of research is that the behavior observed in the subject(s) natural environment to be more natural, spontaneous, and varied than that observed in a laboratory.

• Observational
• Experiments
• Survey

The advantage of this descriptive method of research is that the strict control of variables offers researchers the opportunity to draw conclusions about cause and effect relationships.

• Experiments
• Survey
• Observational

A researcher observes and measures characteristics of interest of part of a population but does not change existing conditions.

• Survey

• Simulation

• Experiment

• Observation

Automobile companies use simulations with crash test dummies to study the effects of crashes on humans.

• Observation

• Simulation

• Survey

• Experiment