Research Design

How to...

• How to pick the correct research design for your study?
• How to design manipulations without confounds?
• How to craft open-ended questions?
• How to craft closed-ended questions?
• How is counterbalancing performed?
• How can you avoid leading questions?
• How to find self-report questionnaires
• How does a researcher establish experimental realism?
• How to avoid attrition in your study?

Other types of practical questions...

• How do cover stories help a researcher obtain more honest reporting from a participant?
• How is deception important for obtaining truthful information from a subject?
• How is a between-subjects factor different from a within-subjects factor?
• How does mundane realism affect a study?
• Does every research study have bias?
• Can we generalize findings to the population with a case study?
• Do extraneous variables affect all research?
• Why is exact replication important to the research process?
• Where can I find archives of data or stimuli to use in my research?
• What are the best tips and tricks to avoid confounds/extraneous variables?
• Should I conduct a pilot study beforehand, and why?

• Content validity
• Demand characteristics

• What is a case study?
• What is attrition?
• What is anonymity?
• What is a closed-ended question?
• What is a double blind study?
• What is a comparison group?
• What is an experimental group?
• What is a pretest-posttest design?
• What is a pre-test?
• What is a post-test?
• What is a longitudinal design?
• What is a variable?
• What is cross-sectional design?
• What is a carryover effect?
• What is confounding?
• What is convenience sampling?
• What are factors?
• What is a within-participants design?
• What is a double-barreled question?
• What are passive research designs?
• What is a leading question?
• What is an experiment?
• What are subjects?
• What are before-after research designs?
• What are concepts?
• What is a pilot study?
• What is correlational research?
• What are cohort effects?
• What is counterbalancing?
• What is a planned comparison?
• What are experimental hypotheses?
• What is related factorial design?
• What is a controlled experiment?
• What is a factorial design?
• What is a condition?
• What is a constant?
• What is the likert scale?
• What is a manipulation?
• What is validity?
• What is the scientific method?
• What is observational research?
• What is a cover story?
• What is laboratory research?
• What is a repeated measure design?
• What is operationalization?
• What is a selection bias?
• What are maturation threats?
• What is constructive replication?
• What is content validity?
• What is differential attrition (mortality)?
• What is ecological validity?
• What is exploratory research?
• What is measurement validity?
• What is mundane realism?
• What is Small N research?
• What is temporal validity?
• What is a baseline?
• What is dichotomous?
• What is a case-control study?
• What is a control group?
• What are A-B-A designs?
• What is an open-ended question?
• What is external validity?
• What is face validity?
• What is internal validity?
• What is snowball sampling?
• What are bivariate statistics?
• What are conceptual variables?
• What are intervening variables?
• What is a pilot study?
• What is a sampling frame?
• What is concurrent validity?
• What is convergent validity?
• What is an extraneous variable?
• What is construct validity?
• What is predictive validity?
• What is discriminant validity?
• What is a literature review?
• What is a box plot?
• What is a moderating variable?
• What is a mediator?
• What is qualitative research?
• What is quantitative research?
• What is ethnography?
• What is participatory action research ?
• What is a reversal design?
• What is a multiple baseline design?
• What is a nested design?
• What is a data point?
• What is inclusion criteria?
• What is history effects?
• What is a significance level?
• What is the latin square design?
• What is inductive research?
• What is a dependent groups design?
• What is a matched groups design?
• What is a multi-factor experiment?
• What is a time series design?
• What is deductive research?
• What is descriptive research?
• What is historical research?
• What is naturalistic research?
• What is a single-subject design?
• What is an environmental variable?
• What is an unobtrusive measure?
• What is an unstructured interview?
• What is conceptual replication?
• What is contamination?
• What is exact replication?