Questions from Business Research Methods

Q: Explain the advantages and disadvantages of using random assignment as a method

Explain the advantages and disadvantages of using random assignment as a method to prevent individual differences from becoming confounding variables.

Q: Explain how using college students as participants in a study may limit

Explain how using college students as participants in a study may limit the external validity of a study’s research findings

Q: Explain why we can be more confident about causal relationships between variables

Explain why we can be more confident about causal relationships between variables when a quasi-experimental design is used instead of a nonexperimental design.

Q: Give an example of a situation (aside from gender) in

Give an example of a situation (aside from gender) in which a researcher must examine preexisting groups.

Q: Briefly explain why a clinical psychologist might prefer doing research with a

Briefly explain why a clinical psychologist might prefer doing research with a single-subject design instead of traditional group design.

Q: The following data show the pattern of results that was obtained in

The following data show the pattern of results that was obtained in a study by Liguori and Robinson (2001) examining how different levels of alcohol and caffeine consumption influenced response time i...

Q: A researcher measures personality characteristics for a group of participants who successfully

A researcher measures personality characteristics for a group of participants who successfully lost weight in a diet program, and compared their scores with a second group consisting of individuals wh...

Q: Identify the two active methods of preventing extraneous variables from becoming confounding

Identify the two active methods of preventing extraneous variables from becoming confounding variables.

Q: Why are studies that examine the effects of aging not considered true

Why are studies that examine the effects of aging not considered true experiments?

Q: Explain how a matched-subjects design attempts to avoid the major

Explain how a matched-subjects design attempts to avoid the major problem with between-subjects experiments (individual differences) and the major problem with within-subjects experiments (time-relate...