Exam 2 Review

A statement of the relationship you expect to find between indicators of your dependent and independent variables.

• Hypothesis

• Concept

• Research question

• Case study

A level of measurement that consists of unrankable categories with no implied direction or magnitude

• Interval-ratio

• Ordinal

• Nominal

The observable measure or proxy for an underlying concept

• Nominal

• Indicator

• Hypothesis

• Concept

An in-depth study of a single unit for the purpose of understanding a larger class of units

• Case study

• Operationalization

• Research question

• Independent variable

The outcome of interest in your study, in other words it is the phenomenon you want to explain.

• Indicator

• Concept

• Dependent Variable

• Independent Variable

A level of measurement that consists of rankable categories, but where the intervals between categories may not be equal or precisely definable

• Interval-Ratio

• Ordinal

• Nominal

An abstract idea or something conceived in the mind

• Indicator

• Concept

• Hypothesis

• Variable

The cause, or the thing that explains the phenomenon you are interested in.

• Dependent variable

• Concept

• Indicator

• Independent variable

A level of measurement that consists of rankable categories with consistent equal distances between units

• Interval-Ratio

• Ordinal

• Nominal

The process of defining a concept in measurable terms.

• Conceptualization

• Operationalization

• Hypothesizing

• Researching