3. Assignment:
Please use your own words to answer the following questions. Using copy and paste to answer the responses from the any source will earn 0 points. All assignments are run through a plagiarism checker.
- What are concepts, and how are they related to research?
- What is the goal of conceptualization? Why is it important?
- What is the goal of operationalization? Why is it important? What is the difference between conceptualization and operationalization?
- What are measures, and why are they important? Why would you want to use multiple measures?
- What are variables? What characteristics should they have? Why?
- What are attributes? What are they also called? How are they related to research?
- What are the four levels of measurement? All else being equal, which level of measurement should you strive for? Why?
- What are categorical, discrete, and continuous variables? How do they differ? Why does it matter?
- What makes response categories or attributes mutually exclusive and exhaustive? Why is this important?
- How are concepts related to variables? How is validity related to this? What does reliability refer to? Why are validity and reliability important?