In behavioral terms, “operationally define” the bolded term in the following hypothesis: Spanking a child will lead to domestic violence when the child reaches adulthood.
2. In your own words, explain why “replication of result” is difficult when using each of the following descriptive research methods. Case study, naturalistic observation, and survey method.
3. Carefully read over pages 55-59. As applied to human research, which of the four primary guidelines do you think is most important for researchers to follow. Explain your answer. Can you think of any ethical guideline that you think should be added to the list? Explain why or why not.
4) Watch the video entitled: Comparing Descriptive, Correlational and Experimental Studies (Links to an external site.)
Do an experiment that will prove to the world that students learn better when there is a smaller teacher/child ratio. Explain how I may do this using information in section on research in the text as well as the above video.
5) If I study the correlation between sitting in the front row of a classroom and test scores, and get a .80 correlation coefficient, what does that mean? Does it mean that where I sit in the class causes an impact on test scores? Why or why not?
