- Name the three characteristics of a good research question.
- Define theory.
- Contrast the process of research reflecting deductive reasoning with that reflecting inductive reasoning.
- Understand why an explanation formulated after the fact is necessarily less certain than an explanation presented before the collection of data.
- Diagram the research circle and explain the role of replication in relation to that circle.
- Distinguish research designs using individuals and groups and explain their relation to the ecological and individualist fallacies.
- Understand the differences between cross-sectional research designs and the three types of longitudinal research design.
