Activity 3.1

Identify and analyze the following statements that describe a research design. Choose your answer from Descriptive Design, Correlational Design, Quasi-Experimental Design, and Experimental Design.

1. A kind of research which is conducted with a scientific approach using two sets of variables.
2. It is a kind of non-experimental study in which relationships are assessed without manipulating independent variables or randomly assigning participants to different conditions.
3. It is a type of research design where a researcher seeks to understand what kind of relationships naturally occurring variables have with one another.
4. It is a scientific method which involves observing and explaining the behavior of a subject without influencing it in any way.
5. A kind of research that involves the manipulation of an independent variable without the random assignment of participants to conditions or orders of conditions.