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Chapter Overview
Chapter Overview
No Yes
Are you Are you Are you studying
studying studying Are the participants
the relationship preassigned to groups?
events that events that between variables
occurred in primarily (but not the effects
the occur in Yes No
of one on the other)?
past? the present?
Yes Yes Yes No Quasi- True
No
No experimental experimental
Historical Descriptive Correlational
research research Time to
reconsider Experimental Research
Non-experimental Research the question
APPLIED VS. BASIC RESEARCH
• Basic research has no immediate
application
• Applied research has immediate
applications