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What is theory? - ✔✔An idea that explains some phenomenon or
how different things in the real world are related to each other
Is the purpose of all research to test theory? - ✔✔Research can
either be testing theory research and building theory research
What is Basic research? - ✔✔It's purpose is to extend
knowledge
What is Applied research? - ✔✔To extend knowledge and apply
it to a problem
List the distinguishing characteristics of scientific research -
✔✔Purposiveness
Rigor
, Testability
Replicability
Precision + Confidence
Objectivity
Generalizability
Parsimony
What is Purposiveness? - ✔✔Research with a definite aim or
purpose
What is rigor? - ✔✔The carefulness, scrupulousness and the
degree of the exactitude in research investigations
What is testability? - ✔✔property that applies to the hypothesis of
a study.
What is replicability? - ✔✔The extent to which scientific
procedures and findings can be repeated by other researchers.
What is Precision? - ✔✔The closeness to the findings to "reality"
based on a sample