Exam 8: Nonexperimental Research, Part I: Observational,

If a researcher is observing how students in two already existing classes at a college learn, then the researcher has not ___________ participants to groups.

One of the problems associated with content analysis is

If a researcher watches shoppers for signs of anxiety during checkout via television monitoring, the researcher is performing a _________________ study

The hermeneutic approach

One of the challenges of performing archival research is

A major disadvantage of observational research is that

Recording methods in nonexperimental research can present a number of problems because

In observational research, threats to validity may be controlled

Nonexperimental research sometimes has to forfeit ______________ in return for obtaining the data

The manifest content of a text is

Case-study research

Which of these is NOT advisable in making field notes?

In case-study investigations, the researcher:

In a research project investigating power relationships in speech, first-semester college freshman and college seniors were invited to a laboratory in equal numbers. There, they were asked to chat and get to know each other before the real experiment began. The researchers actually analyzed the number of interruptions that people made in the course of a conversation. This is an example of __________ research.

If a researcher watches episodes of old TV shows and codes them for social attitudes toward women, the researcher is coding for

Prior to beginning your field observations, you should

One of the problems inherent in participant-observer research is a difficulty with

A study of existing records is called ____________ research

Experimental research typically has a higher level of ____________ than nonexperimental methodology.

Many case studies result from