Causal and correlational research (step 4 deductive research process)

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What is a research design (step 4 deductive research process)?

A plan for the collection, measurement, and analysis of data.

Note: within the constraints put on the researcher:
1. Amount of people working on project
2. Time
3. Budget

What are the two types of deductive research and what are the underlying research strategies?

Research type 1: Causal research
Research strategies: 1. Lab experiments, 2. Field experiments

Research type 2: Correlational research
Research strategies: 1. Archival research, 2. Survey research

What is a lab experiment?

  • Artificial environment
  • in which one or more IV's are manipulated
  • after which the effect on the DV is measured.


You as a researcher can manipulate the research study. First you manipulate, then you measure your dependent variable.

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What is a field experiment? What's the difference to lab experiments?

  • An experiment carried out in the natural environment
  • in which work/ life goes on as usual
  • but manipulation is possible


Difference to lab experiments: more subjective variables (lab experiments).
In the lab experiment you have more control about the conditions than in a field experiment.


Example:
Piliavin: field experiment in subway new york: raise and tipe of victim: observed time and frequency how and whether people responded to ill and drunk people falling down. The more people there were in the crucial space, the more people feel social responsible to help.

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