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Communication ✔✔a human process of sharing meaning with others
Communications ✔✔a technological systems for the transmission of information
ex) telephone, cable, television, fiber optics, the internet, etc.
Method ✔✔a systematic technique or procedure used to conduct research.
Methodology ✔✔the study of one or more methods. A method is how you conduct your research.
ex) using interviews to collect data for your project
Research ✔✔the detailed or in-depth study of a subject (often a theory) to reach a greater understanding or to obtain new information about the subject.
Theory ✔✔a formal statement of rules on which a subject is based or an explanation of the relationship between variables.
Anonymity ✔✔when the researcher does not know the participants names or personal information
Confederate ✔✔the person who is in on the project and assists with the data collection.
Confidentiality ✔✔is where the researcher knows the names and personal information of the participants but does not share the information with anyone else.
Debriefing ✔✔when a researcher explains all of the aspects and purposes of the research process after the research is completed
Ethics ✔✔the actions, thoughts, values, principles, and communicative practices one enacts in determining how to interact with and treat others.
Exempt ✔✔a research that has minimal risks; typically similar to the risks a person faces in a normal day.
ex)
Research conducting on existing data
Non-exempt ✔✔if a project involves higher risks for participants, or if individual participants are not able to consent for themselves (children, people with mental disabilities, prisoners), a project will be non-exempt.
Non exempt projects are sent to the full board for review
Such projects need closer scrutiny to make sure the project fulfills the three principles established in the Belmont Report.
Institutional Review Board (IRB) ✔✔hey monitor, direct, and are responsible for enacting codes of conduct.
Every university/ college has their own IRB
IRB's consist of faculty members from diverse backgrounds
IRB needs to have at least one member on the board who is not affiliated with the university/ college to help make sure rules are followed
IRB needs faculty with various methodological and theoretical specializations
Informed Consent ✔✔where you tell your participants, in a written document, what they will be doing in the study, explain the risks and benefits of their participation, explain that individuals have a right to stop participation at any time, provide the researchers' contact information, and obtain participant permission to take part in the study.
Breadth ✔✔the expanse of issues
Databases ✔✔a structured set of data held in a computer→ where you find your information for writing a literature review
Depth ✔✔is how far into the details you dig for your literature review
Double-blind peer review- (process) ✔✔1. Researcher conducts a study and writes up the results.
- Researcher submits the paper to a journal.
- The editor of the journal receives the manuscript and removes the name of the researcher and any reference to the researcher
- The editor will then send out the paper to members of the journals editorial review board. The review board is composed of highly respected scholars in the specialized area of the journal
- The process is double blind since the researcher does not know which members of the board will review the article and the board members do not know the name or school of the researcher. ONLY THE JOURNAL EDITOR KNOWS ALL THE INFORMATION
Exemplary Literature Review ✔✔is a representative sample of the strongest and/or key studies related to your research
Popular Press ✔✔refers to material written for the general public. This is opposed to scholarly material written for an academic or research audience, or trade material written for an industry audience. Most popular press materials are newspaper and magazine articles
Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association ✔✔hundreds of pages long so we take exemplary approach and identify common issues we see in our own students papers
Rejected ✔✔not accepted, needs to be fixed
Revise and Resubmit ✔✔a paper tagged with minor revisions or major revisions is considered a "revise and resubmit" and will be returned to the researcher. THe researcher then reads the comments from the editor and review board and decide if they want to undertake the expected revisions.
Scholarly Sources ✔✔are the gold standard for a research article. The best scholarly sources have undergone a double blind peer review process.
Thematic Approach ✔✔to identify key themes and concepts and let the themes guide the development of the literature review
- More complex and takes more time to develop
Thematic Approach Requires: ✔✔1. Finding stacks of articles related to your research
- Reading the articles
- Identifying the themes (key issues, concepts, and patterns) that permeate through the articles
- Organizing the themes into a coherent whole
