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This document contains a key terms activity in research. It provides definitions or descriptions of 15 key terms used in research and experiments. Students are asked to match each term with its definition by choosing from a list of 15 words or phrases. The key terms include variables like independent, dependent, and control variables. It also includes concepts like hypotheses, experiments, data, sampling, and qualitative versus quantitative data. The goal is for students to understand and be able to identify the important terms used when designing, conducting, and analyzing experiments and research.

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RP 3

This document contains a key terms activity in research. It provides definitions or descriptions of 15 key terms used in research and experiments. Students are asked to match each term with its definition by choosing from a list of 15 words or phrases. The key terms include variables like independent, dependent, and control variables. It also includes concepts like hypotheses, experiments, data, sampling, and qualitative versus quantitative data. The goal is for students to understand and be able to identify the important terms used when designing, conducting, and analyzing experiments and research.

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Name: Christian A.

Limbaro Grade & Section: 12 Electra

Act. No. ____


Key Terms in Research

A. Directions. Read the definition/description carefully. Choose the appropriate term from the words/phrases
inside the box that would match each description.
1. Extraneous variable The factors within an experiment that are kept the same for all groups or trials in an
attempt to reduce the influence of extraneous variables.
2. Experimental Group The group in an experiment that receives the exact treatment as the experimental
groups except it does not receive any change of the independent variable. It is the group to which the
experimental groups are compared.
3.Dependent variable The variable in an experiment that changes in response to the independent variable
and, therefore, is also referred to as the responding variable.
4.Experimental Group The groups or trials in an experiment that receive all the same conditions except
varying amounts or qualities of the independent variable.
5.Constants An “undesirable” variable in addition to the independent variable that may influence the
results of an experiment, introducing error if it is not, as much as possible, controlled or significantly
decreased in the research design.
6.Hypothesis A tentative (i.e., not final and definite) and testable proposed explanation for an observable
phenomenon.
7. Control group A variable in an experiment that is purposely changed or manipulated, either in quantity
or quality, by the researcher; also referred to as the manipulated variable.
8. Discussion A conclusion, based on facts, that a person perceives to be true.
9.Population The complete collection of every item that has the same characteristics of the individuals
in the sample group.
10.Qualitative Data Data that describe characteristics or qualities, such as color, odor, or texture, or data
that describe category frequency or ratings, such as stem sturdiness (e.g., “sturdy,” “somewhat sturdy,”
“limp”).
11.Quantitative Data Data that use numbers with a unit of measurement, such as the length of an insect in
millimeters (millimeter is the unit of measurement) or the weight of a projectile in kilograms (kilograms is the
unit of measurement).
12. Sample A subcollection of data that represent a larger population.
13.Trial The replication of experimental and control groups; used to decrease the influence of
variations associated with the independent variable, researcher measurement error, and difference between
entities studied.
14. Variable A quantity susceptible of fluctuation or change in value or magnitude under different conditions.
15. Control Variable This is a variable that is controlled by the investigator in which the effects can be
neutralized by eliminating or removing the variable.

Control variable Experimental groups Population


Constants Variable Inference
Control group Sample Hypothesis
Dependent variable Independent variable Extraneous variable
Quantitative data Qualitative data Trial
Data Discussion Experimentation

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