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Qualitative and Quantitative Data

Question 1 of 22

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Quantitative analysis involves ___?____ responses or occurrences.

Select one or more of the following:

  • counting

  • looking at

  • studying

  • drawing

  • correlating

Explanation

Question 2 of 22

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Qualitative analysis is concerned with interpreting the ___?___ of data, i.e. quality rather than quantity.

Select one or more of the following:

  • meaning

  • that they are happy as they have all their material needs looked after, and ridiculous amounts of wealth. They do not have to work every day for a measly living, like Wilson who works all day in the garage and is desperate for business, or in Dickens’ Hard Times, where Stephen, a poor mill-worker who looks older than he is and has to give up his bed when his drunkard wife wants to sleep in it. The poverty-stricken circus-folk in Hard

  • numbers

  • reasons

Explanation

Question 3 of 22

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Qualitative researchers believe that the ___?___ methods used by psychologists do not produce results that are applicable to everyday life.

Select one or more of the following:

  • traditional

  • qualitative

  • quantitative

  • nominal

  • psychodynamic

Explanation

Question 4 of 22

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Qualitative methods emphasise ___?___ because they aim to represent the world as seen by the individual.

Select one or more of the following:

  • subjectiveness

  • objectiveness

  • tivenessssssss

  • sssss

  • rationality

  • typicality

  • extraneousness

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Question 5 of 22

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In order to produce subjective information, the qualitative researcher asks narrow questions that allow a respondent to answer in their own words, or observes their behaviour directly.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 6 of 22

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The data sets produced in qualitative research tend to be very small though the samples may be quite large.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 7 of 22

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The data can be examined for similarities and differences across different cases, times, events and themes, in order to construct explanations.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 8 of 22

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Discourse Analysis:

Select one of the following:

  • Studying written or oral discourses

  • Observing people in their natural environments

  • Rampant sex

  • Understanding how people make sense of their experiences

Explanation

Question 9 of 22

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Ethnography:

Select one of the following:

  • Observing people in their natural environments

  • Studying written or oral discourses

  • Understanding how people make sense of their experiences

Explanation

Question 10 of 22

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Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA)

Select one of the following:

  • Understanding how people make sense of their experiences

  • Studying written or oral discourses

  • Observing people in their natural environments

  • Docter Procter

Explanation

Question 11 of 22

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Coding is a process of identifying categories, ___?___ phrases or keywords that may be found in a data set.

Select one of the following:

  • themes

  • analysing

  • ideas

  • pimples

  • categories

  • words

Explanation

Question 12 of 22

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For example, when analysing ___?___ data, the researcher identifies a number of categories, then allocates each individual observation to one of the categories

Select one of the following:

  • observational

  • qualitative

  • quantitative

  • operationalised

  • tedious

Explanation

Question 13 of 22

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Similarly, when analysing the transcript of an interview, the researcher identifies a variety of themes, e.g. feeling upset and thinking about the future, and then works through the entire text, annotating each sen6ence of the interview.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 14 of 22

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The categories or themes are decided upon in one of two ways: Thematic analysis, a bottom-up approach, or Grounded theory, a top-down approach

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 15 of 22

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Thematic analysis: Codes represent ideas and ___?___ from an existing theory or explanation. For example, the clinical characteristics of schizophrenia may be used as ___?___ to code self-descriptions from patients diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Select one or more of the following:

  • concepts

  • categories

  • topics

  • flared trousers

  • thoughts

  • traditions

  • tools

Explanation

Question 16 of 22

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Grounded theory: where codes or categories emerge from the data

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 17 of 22

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Grounded theory: Codes remain grounded in the __?__ ( as they have emerged from the data), rather than being generated before by ___?___views. This is popular in an area that has not been well researched or in order to ___?___ new insights.

Select one or more of the following:

  • observations

  • existing

  • develop

  • think about

  • heritable

  • lead us on to the

  • cold hard ground--waaaaaaAAAAAARGH! graaaAAAaaah! trouble, trouble trouble!

  • popular

Explanation

Question 18 of 22

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Content Analysis: The behavioural categories can't be used to summarise the data. For example, the categories or themes may be listed, or examples of behaviour within the category may be represented using quotes from participants, or descriptions of typical behaviours in that category. It is also possible to count frequency of occurrences in each category, thus qualitative data is turned into quantitative data. Finally, a researcher may draw conclusions.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 19 of 22

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Reflexivity:

Select one of the following:

  • The recognition that a researchers attitudes, biases etc have an unavoidable influence on the research they are conducting. The impact of this cannot be avoided, but it can be c=monitored, and reported.

  • This can be checked in qualitative research by looking at inter-rater reliability when more than one person has coded the data.

  • This may be demonstrated using triangulation, comparing the findings gained from several different research methods, such as observations and interviews, and seeing if they all agree.

  • The qualitative approach denies the existence of any one 'real' world, and instead sees each individual's subjective perspective as what is real and 'the truth'.

Explanation

Question 20 of 22

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Validity

Select one of the following:

  • This may be demonstrated using triangulation, comparing the findings gained from several different research methods, such as observations and interviews, and seeing if they all agree.

  • The qualitative approach denies the existence of any one 'real' world, and instead sees each individual's subjective perspective as what is real and 'the truth'.

  • This can be checked in qualitative research by looking at inter-rater reliability when more than one person has coded the data.

  • The recognition that a researchers attitudes, biases etc have an unavoidable influence on the research they are conducting. The impact of this cannot be avoided, but it can be c=monitored, and reported.

Explanation

Question 21 of 22

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REliability

Select one of the following:

  • This can be checked in qualitative research by looking at inter-rater reliability when more than one person has coded the data.

  • The recognition that a researchers attitudes, biases etc have an unavoidable influence on the research they are conducting. The impact of this cannot be avoided, but it can be c=monitored, and reported.

  • This may be demonstrated using triangulation, comparing the findings gained from several different research methods, such as observations and interviews, and seeing if they all agree.

  • The qualitative approach denies the existence of any one 'real' world, and instead sees each individual's subjective perspective as what is real and 'the truth'.

Explanation

Question 22 of 22

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Reality

Select one of the following:

  • IS THIS THE REAL LIFE

  • IS THIS JUST FANTASY

  • CAUGHT IN A LANDSLIDE

  • NO ESCAPE FROM

  • The qualitative approach denies the existence of any one 'real' world, and instead sees each individual's subjective perspective as what is real and 'the truth'.

  • This may be demonstrated using triangulation, comparing the findings gained from several different research methods, such as observations and interviews, and seeing if they all agree.

  • This can be checked in qualitative research by looking at inter-rater reliability when more than one person has coded the data.

  • The recognition that a researchers attitudes, biases etc have an unavoidable influence on the research they are conducting. The impact of this cannot be avoided, but it can be c=monitored, and reported.

Explanation

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