Chapter 2: Theory, Research, and Evidence-Based Practice: Vocabulary

Question	Answer
applied research	research designed to directly influence or improve clinical practice
basic research	research designed to generate and refine theory; the findings are often not directly useful in practice
inductive reasoning	cognitive process in which one identifies a specific idea or action and then makes conclusions about general ideas
quantitative research	involves the concepts of base and applied research (variable, dependent variable, independent variable, hypothesis, data, instruments)
qualitative research	conducted to gain insight by discovering meanings; differs from quantitative in that it analyzes words or narratives rather than numbers (phenomenology, grounded theory, ethnography, historical)

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