Overview of Research Methods and Statistics

What is Archival Research?

• Analyzing existing data, like historical records or public documents.

• Observing behavior in its natural setting without interference.

• Researchers become part of the group being studied.

• Observing specific behaviors using a checklist or rating scale.

What is Naturalistic Observation?

• Analyzing existing data, like historical records or public documents.

• Observing behavior in its natural setting without interference.

• Researchers become part of the group being studied.

• Observing specific behaviors using a checklist or rating scale.

What is Participant Observation?

• Analyzing existing data, like historical records or public documents.

• Observing behavior in its natural setting without interference.

• Researchers become part of the group being studied.

• Observing specific behaviors using a checklist or rating scale.

What is Structured Observation?

• Analyzing existing data, like historical records or public documents.

• Observing behavior in its natural setting without interference.

• Researchers become part of the group being studied.

• Observing specific behaviors using a checklist or rating scale.

What is Psychometrics?

• The science of measuring mental and psychological traits.

• Abstract ideas.

• Concrete measures.

• The relationship between two variables.

What are Conceptual and Operational Variables?

• Abstract ideas and concrete measures.

• The science of measuring mental and psychological traits.

• The relationship between two variables.

• Predicting one variable from another.

What are Operational Definitions?

• Defining variables in terms of how they are measured.

• The relationship between two variables.

• Predicting one variable from another.

• A statistical method for finding the best-fitting line.

What is Correlation?

• The relationship between two variables.

• Predicting one variable from another.

• A statistical method for finding the best-fitting line.

• Predicting one variable from one other variable.

What is Regression?

• Predicting one variable from another.

• A statistical method for finding the best-fitting line.

• Predicting one variable from multiple other variables.

• The spread of data.

What is the Least Squares Method?

• A statistical method for finding the best-fitting line.

• Predicting one variable from another.

• The spread of data.

• The science of measuring mental and psychological traits.