Learning Objectives
- Define knowledge, social science, research, and research methods.
- Summarize why understanding research methods is important.
- Evaluate and describe each of the major steps taken to conduct research, as well as the importance of each step.
- Develop research questions that would describe, associate, and predict variables. Compare the different types of research questions.
- Assess what makes ethics an important consideration during research by summarizing examples from the classic cases of unethical research.
- Describe the impetus and purpose of the Nuremberg Code and the Belmont Report. Evaluate the guidelines and requirements of ethical research according to these foundational documents.