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1. What is a research question?
2. What are the types of substantive and methodological criticisms that are made of past research?
3. What is a theory?
4. What is a hypothesis?
5. What is a variable?
6. What is an independent variable, dependent variable, mediator variable, moderator variable, and control variable?
7. What is an empirical study?
8. Why is causality hard to show in the social sciences? What should you do to help overcome this problem?
9. What is research design?
10. What are the different types of research designs?
11. What is the difference between qualitative and quantitative designs?
12. What is an experiment? What are the different types?
13. What is a true experiment? What are its main characteristics?