Describe What Three Descriptive Research Methods Will You Use?
Melany Fava
Section 1: Descriptive Research Study Design
1a. What topic are you proposing to describe?
Dieting in Weymouth High School students.
2a. Which approach to psychology would be most interested in describing this topic?
Social
3a. Which of the three descriptive research methods will you use?
Survey
4a. Thoroughly describe how you will design this research study with specific attention to sampling, wording-effect and various biases when applicable.
I will create a 10-question survey on why, and how many Weymouth High School students diet, and randomly assign it to every other student alphabetically. The questions will be related to emotions and feelings and on why they think they need to diet. I will structure the questions …show more content…
Section 2: Correlational Research Study Design
1a. What two variables from your topic (please use the same topic as that from section I) are you going to study to determine if they are related?
Society and dieting
2a. What are your operational definitions for each topic
If most of the answers to their survey questions are related to how society think they should look, their dieting habits are related to society.
3a. Describe how you will use a survey to gather data with specific attention to random sampling.
I will take an alphabetical list of all Weymouth High School students and give my survey to every other person on the list. Based on the answers to the survey I will be able to tell if Weymouth High School students diet to make themselves look how society wants them to.
4a. Describe or simply show how you will use excel to determine the correlation coefficient. (10pts)
I will go into excel and put my results into the chart, x being the question number and y being the person who took it, and record which letter they chose on the survey. I would then use the formula =ttest(array1, array2, 1, 2) to find out what the correlation coefficient
Section 1: Descriptive Research Study Design
1a. What topic are you proposing to describe?
Dieting in Weymouth High School students.
2a. Which approach to psychology would be most interested in describing this topic?
Social
3a. Which of the three descriptive research methods will you use?
Survey
4a. Thoroughly describe how you will design this research study with specific attention to sampling, wording-effect and various biases when applicable.
I will create a 10-question survey on why, and how many Weymouth High School students diet, and randomly assign it to every other student alphabetically. The questions will be related to emotions and feelings and on why they think they need to diet. I will structure the questions …show more content…
Section 2: Correlational Research Study Design
1a. What two variables from your topic (please use the same topic as that from section I) are you going to study to determine if they are related?
Society and dieting
2a. What are your operational definitions for each topic
If most of the answers to their survey questions are related to how society think they should look, their dieting habits are related to society.
3a. Describe how you will use a survey to gather data with specific attention to random sampling.
I will take an alphabetical list of all Weymouth High School students and give my survey to every other person on the list. Based on the answers to the survey I will be able to tell if Weymouth High School students diet to make themselves look how society wants them to.
4a. Describe or simply show how you will use excel to determine the correlation coefficient. (10pts)
I will go into excel and put my results into the chart, x being the question number and y being the person who took it, and record which letter they chose on the survey. I would then use the formula =ttest(array1, array2, 1, 2) to find out what the correlation coefficient