1.4 Terminology
Explain the fundamental differences between the following pairs of often-confused terms (Table 1.1), highlighting the important differences.
| Hypothesis | \(\blacktriangleleft\) Pair 1 \(\blacktriangleright\) | Research question |
| Relational RQ | \(\blacktriangleleft\) Pair 2 \(\blacktriangleright\) | Repeated-measures RQ |
| Response variable | \(\blacktriangleleft\) Pair 3 \(\blacktriangleright\) | Explanatory variable |
| Response variable | \(\blacktriangleleft\) Pair 4 \(\blacktriangleright\) | Outcome |
| Observational study | \(\blacktriangleleft\) Pair 5 \(\blacktriangleright\) | Experimental study |
| Quasi-experiment | \(\blacktriangleleft\) Pair 6 \(\blacktriangleright\) | True experiment |
| Conceptual definition | \(\blacktriangleleft\) Pair 7 \(\blacktriangleright\) | Operational definition |
| Unit of observation | \(\blacktriangleleft\) Pair 8 \(\blacktriangleright\) | Unit of analysis |