Questions from Business Research Methods

Q: By manipulating the participants’ experiences, it is possible to examine how

By manipulating the participants’ experiences, it is possible to examine how people’s performance and attitudes are influenced by success and failure. To do this, researchers can give some participant...

Q: Explain the distinction between naturalistic observation and participant observation, and describe

Explain the distinction between naturalistic observation and participant observation, and describe the situations in which participant observation may be particularly useful.

Q: It has been demonstrated that students with high self-esteem tend

It has been demonstrated that students with high self-esteem tend to have higher grades than students with low self-esteem. Does this relationship mean that higher self-esteem causes better academic p...

Q: Explain how a researcher using simple random sampling can still obtain a

Explain how a researcher using simple random sampling can still obtain a biased sample.

Q: Identify the two characteristics needed for a research study to qualify as

Identify the two characteristics needed for a research study to qualify as an experiment.

Q: What is the novelty effect, and how does it affect a

What is the novelty effect, and how does it affect a study’s external validity?

Q: Explain how the process of randomly assigning participants to treatment conditions should

Explain how the process of randomly assigning participants to treatment conditions should prevent a participant variable such as age or gender from becoming a confounding variable.

Q: In addition to the key words, you should also be able

In addition to the key words, you should also be able to define the following terms: Within-subjects design Between-subjects design Independent-measures design Random assignment Variance within trea...

Q: Describe the advantages of a two-group design compared to an

Describe the advantages of a two-group design compared to an experiment with more than two groups.

Q: At the beginning of this chapter (p. 186), we

At the beginning of this chapter (p. 186), we described a study comparing the effectiveness of studying material printed on paper to studying material displayed on a computer screen (Ackerman & Goldsm...