{"id":3958,"date":"2018-07-22T21:24:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T01:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/?p=3958"},"modified":"2019-05-25T21:15:54","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T01:15:54","slug":"the-nuts-and-bolts-of-correlational-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/research-methods-in-psychology\/the-nuts-and-bolts-of-correlational-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nuts and Bolts of Correlational Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><u>Correlational Study: <\/u>examines the relationships between multiple DV, without manipulating any of the variables<\/li>\n<li><u>Descriptive research question: <\/u>asks about the presence of behavior, how frequently it is exhibited, or whether there is a relationship between different behaviors<\/li>\n<li><u>Predictive research question: <\/u>asks if one behavior can be predicted from another behavior to allow predictions of future behavior<\/li>\n<li><u>Third variable problem: <\/u>the presence of extraneous factors in a study that affect the DV can decrease the internal validity of the study<\/li>\n<li><u>Positive relationship: <\/u>relationship between variables where there is an increase in both variables<\/li>\n<li><u>Negative relationship: <\/u>a relationship between variables where there is an increase in one variable and a decrease in the other I. Chapter Summary:<\/li>\n<li>Correlational studies can answer descriptive or predictive research questions o Do not contain IVs that are manipulated by the researcher<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>o Third\u00advariable problem exists in correlational studies due to a lack of sufficient control of extraneous variables<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hypotheses tested in correlational studies are about describing or predicting behavior<\/li>\n<li>Causal hypotheses predict a specific cause of a behavior<\/li>\n<li>Regression analysis of the relationship between factors in a correlational study can test predictive relationships between variables<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Questions:\n<ol>\n<li>When two measures are related such that as the value of one measure increases, the value of the other measure increases, this is called a ______________ relationship<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Ans: Positive<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li>If you are attempting to determine the value of one measure based on its relationship with another measure, you are testing a ____________ research question<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Ans: Predictive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correlational Study: examines the relationships between multiple DV, without manipulating any of the variables Descriptive research question: asks about the presence of behavior, how frequently it is exhibited, or&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/research-methods-in-psychology\/the-nuts-and-bolts-of-correlational-studies\/\">Continue Reading<span> The Nuts and Bolts of Correlational Studies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4735,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3958\/revisions\/4735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyork.ca\/academic\/zz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}