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A is designed to account for known relationships among given variables and behavior, generate new research questions through deductive reasoning.
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Published research offers a nearly limitless source of observation.
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Your own ongoing or previous research can be a source of ideas.
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To be answerable by application of the scientific method, a question must be .
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Without the use of definitions, a question cannot be answered meaningfully within the scientific method.
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A question is probably if the answer can support only one among several competing hypotheses or theoretical views.
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A question is probably if the effects of variables being considered are of no theoretical interest.
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Before you design your study, you should always conduct a .
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A textbook is an example of a(n) source of research information.
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The value of secondary sources of research information (such as review articles) lies in their ability to , , and results from related research studies.
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is used to do a computer search of the Psychological Abstracts.
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provides full text versions of articles published in APA journals.
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A journal is said to be if the articles it contains have been subjected to review by other researchers in the field.
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Full-text versions of articles from a variety of publications can be found by using .
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Personal replies by researchers to inquiries about their research come under the heading of .
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The author should clearly state the purpose of a study and any hypotheses in the of an APA-style research paper.
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The results of statistical tests are presented in the section of a research paper.
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Because of the file drawer phenomenon, published findings as a group may be reliable than they seem.
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Results of a study are less likely to be accepted for publication if they fail to show with previous knowledge.
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When determining whether to accept or reject a paper, editors and reviewers must assess the degree to which the reported findings contribute to the of knowledge
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is the practice of having other researchers in the area judge whether a research paper should be published.
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According to the text, values can creep into science when scientists move from to .





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