Assignment: Descriptive design research

Assignment: Descriptive design research

The first step in obtaining a sample is for the researchers to decide the makeup of the ____________ in which they are interested.
Question options:
a) group
b) descriptive design
c) topic of research
d) variable

Question 21 1 / 1 point
When a researcher is interested in a particular question or topic that is relatively new to the field, it is best to use a(n) ____________.
Question options:
a) representative sample
b) experimental study
c) descriptive design
d) case study

Question 22 1 / 1 point
Cal believes that a larger percentage of a city’s population will engage in public displays of affection in highly populated cities due to feelings of anonymity when an individual is among a lot of other people. He watches people’s interactions with each other in the university area, and unobtrusively counts the number of couples who are holding hands, hugging, or kissing. He then does the same in the sparsely populated city of Stillwater, Oklahoma. The research method Cal used is known as ____________.
Question options:
a) interviewing
b) a true experiment
c) naturalistic observation
d) a case study

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Question 23 1 / 1 point
____________ measure two or more variables and their relationship to one another.
Question options:
a) Correlational designs
b) Descriptive statistics
c) Descriptive designs
d) Random assignments

Question 24 0 / 1 point
The ____________ is the middle score, which separates the lower half of scores from the upper half.
Question options:
a) mean
b) frequency
c) median
d) mode

Question 25 1 / 1 point
The ____________ is a statistical measure of how much scores in a sample vary around the mean.
Question options:
a) standard deviation
b) mode
c) mean
d) median