Ungraded Quiz - HPA 100

What is Research?

• An organized process of design to learn more about a problem or answer questions.

  
  

• The measurable results, positive or negative, of a healthcare option. 

• Collects information or data using an organized approach and scientific methods that have been tested

What are outcomes?

• An organized process of design to learn more about a problem or answer questions.

  
  

• The measurable results, positive or negative, of a healthcare option. 

• Collects information or data using an organized approach and scientific methods that have been tested.

What is a Research Study?

• An organized process of design to learn more about a problem or answer questions.

• The measurable results, positive or negative, of a healthcare option. 

• Collects information or data using an organized approach and scientific methods that have been tested.

The Role of Theory in Social Science

• Theory provides patterns for the interpretation of data
  

• Theory links one study with another

• Theory supplies frameworks within which concepts
  acquire significance

• Theory allows us to interpret the larger meaning of our finding

• All of the Above

refers to the consistency of a measure (whether the results can be reproduced under the same conditions)

refers to the accuracy of a measure (whether the results really do represent what they're supposed to measure

When doing research, one is gathering _____________ ______________ on the question they are answering.

• empirical evidence

• background information

• educated guess

• data

A testable prediction is called (a/an):

• operational definition
• theory
• replication
• hypothesis

All those in a group being studied is referred to as the...

• Random sample
• Representative sample
• Population
• Sampling bias

The variable manipulated by the researcher is the

• Dependent Variable

• Independent Variable

• Confounding Variable

• Correlational Variable