ARCHETYPE: a shared idea or thought present in the unconscious. Timeless psychic nodes of evidence. Examples are hero, infinity, and truth.
APPLIED: Research for specific context to measure.
CARTOGRAPHY: the study and practice of making maps. The ability to know place.
CAUSE-EFFECT: Direct relationship in which one variable determines reaction in another.
CAUSAL RESEARCH APPROACH: A causes B.
COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS: a universal concept present in the unconscious and shared by a
group of individuals.
CONJECTURE: and opinion, understanding, or belief.
CONFOUNDING VARIABLE: A variable related to a hypothesis that disrupts a study.
CORRELATIONAL RESEARCH APPROACH: Predictable
DECONSTRUCTING: Analyze the character of work from the point of view of the author.
DEDUCTIVE RESEARCH APPROACH: Starting with theory working to data.
DEPENDENT VARIABLE: What you measure in an experiement.
DETERMINISTIC RELATIONSHIP: There is one way or another. the person has total control over the environment or the environment has total control over the people.
ECOTONE:Interpretation of species across boundary, where ecozones meet.
EDGE: Abstract or boundary, where ecozones come together. Edges are typically circulation zones.
EPISTEMOLOGY: The study of knowledge. How we understand what we know. Two philosophical approaches are phonomonolgy and positivism.
EXTRANEOUS: Unrelated variable that disrupts an experiment.
EXPERIMENTATION: Cause and effect research approach. The three conditions for causal relationships include co-occurrence, the sequence of delivery, and the ruling out of other explanations. (Somer 88)
INDEPENDENT VARIABLE: What you manipulate in an experiment.
INDUCTIVE RESEARCH APPROACH: Starting with data and going to theory.
GESTALT: The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
NATURE-NUTURE: The idea that humans develop their characteristics based on biological make-up or environmental influence.
OPERATIONAL DEFINTION:observable conditions that can be measured.
PARTICIPATORY: Getting research populations to help with research.
PHENOMONOLOGY: Epistomology based on sense of experience.
PLACE IDENTITY: We are who we are because of the places we are from. The functions of place identity are "recognition, meaning, expressive-requirement, mediating change, and anxiety and defense function."
POSITIVISM: Epistomology based on quanitifying or measuring.
PROXEMICS: The study of relationships between bodies in space.
RELIABILITY: The meausre of consistency in a study.
RULES OF EVIDENCE: A gauge for determining truth.
SELF: An archetype. A symbol of self may be a home.
SELF IDENTITY: The way the archetype, self, is shown consciously.
STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE: Is there a clear measureable difference between this group and the last?
TRANSACTIONALISM: A constant change between the relationship of person and the environment.
QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL:
VALIDITY: The measure of whether or not a study fullfills its claims. There are two types of validity, internal and external. Internal validity is a measure within the study. External validity is process of extrapilating the claims to groups outside the study.
Bibliography:
Somer, Robert and Barbara Somer. A Practical Guide to Behavioral Research, Tools and Techniques. Oxford, 2002.
