Exam 4: Research Design, Research Ethics, and Evidence of Causation

Which of the following occurs when every prospective has an equal chance of ending up in the control group or the test group?

The causal effect of an independent variable is the difference between two potential outcomes.

In any type of experiment it is essential that participants be ______ to ensure the absence of systematic bias.

Which of the following refers to the population that the researchers wants to analyze and the source from which the samples are drawn?

A researcher is studying the social habits of 100 male college students. She divides the subjects into two groups with each individual having the same likelihood of being in either group. This is called ______.

A researcher who fails to account for gender when researching the effect of partisanship on political attitudes has missed a potential ______.

Experimental designs do not control for the possible effects of all rival explanations.

The terms random sampling and random assignment can be used interchangeably.

A researcher is studying the formation of political attitudes in a group of individuals. Some of the individuals are exposed to several fake news stories to determine if the stories affect their attitudes while others are not. The exposed individuals are called the ______.

The fundamental purpose of research design is to allow the research to study causal effects of independent variables.

A ______ experiment is one that occurs in the subject's normal surroundings.

In a political research experiment, the group that is not exposed to a treatment is referred to as the ______.

Which of the following occurs when every member of the population has an equal chance of being included in the sample?

Experimental approaches represent the gold standard in research procedure.

When conducting political research, it is important that individuals in the two experimental groups are ______ in every way that could affect the dependent variable.

In which phase do the two groups, control and test, receive different values of the independent variable?

Field experiments often lack ______ because it is sometimes difficult to ensure that all members of the test group are exposed to the treatment.

To conduct a ______, the organization would divide the population into two or more strata.

Field experiments are not known for overcoming the limitations of the laboratory environment.

A characteristic upon which subjects in a study have variable values is known as a ______.