Research Methods Final Exam
Questions With Correct Answers
Quantitative research - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Systematic empirical
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investigation of quantitative properties and phenomena and their
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relationships. This data is LIMITED. Number data.
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Qualitative research - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Goal is to gather an in-
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depth understanding of human behavior and the reasons that govern
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such behavior. Investigates the why and how of decision making. Ex-
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Performance, OPEN-ENDED (are there common themes that emerge?),
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interviews transcripts--> put data into categories (themes).
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Different types of qualitative research - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Ethnographic, Phenomenological, grounded theory, case study
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Ethnographic - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Study that describes and
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interprets a culture or social group system. Researcher becomes
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immersed in the day-to-day lives of the people being studied or uses
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extensive interviews of the group to determine what they say about
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their culture or social condition.
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, Phenomenological - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Study of lived experiences | | | | | | |
by individuals who have experienced a phenomenon. Ex- kids that have
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a learning disorder.
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Grounded theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Study which tries to generate
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a theory of a particular phenomenon. Interviews of people
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observations in the natural environment, and theoretical propositions
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are developed. Grounded in existing information facts revision of a
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study.
Case study - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Investigation in which a "case"
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(person, event, activity, or individuals) are studied extensively. Ex-
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medical cases... Looking at particular clinical cases.
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Four basic ways of collecting data for qualitative study - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Observations, interviews, documents, visual materials. | | | |
Observations - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-researcher makes notes about
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behaviors/events and field notes obtained in the natural environment | | | | | | | | |
(commonly used with ethnographic studies) | | | |
Interviews - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Researcher asks a series of standard
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|questions to participants (commonly used with phenomenological and
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grounded theory studies) | |
Questions With Correct Answers
Quantitative research - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Systematic empirical
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investigation of quantitative properties and phenomena and their
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relationships. This data is LIMITED. Number data.
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Qualitative research - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Goal is to gather an in-
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depth understanding of human behavior and the reasons that govern
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such behavior. Investigates the why and how of decision making. Ex-
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Performance, OPEN-ENDED (are there common themes that emerge?),
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interviews transcripts--> put data into categories (themes).
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Different types of qualitative research - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-
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Ethnographic, Phenomenological, grounded theory, case study
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Ethnographic - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Study that describes and
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interprets a culture or social group system. Researcher becomes
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immersed in the day-to-day lives of the people being studied or uses
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extensive interviews of the group to determine what they say about
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their culture or social condition.
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, Phenomenological - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Study of lived experiences | | | | | | |
by individuals who have experienced a phenomenon. Ex- kids that have
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a learning disorder.
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Grounded theory - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Study which tries to generate
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a theory of a particular phenomenon. Interviews of people
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observations in the natural environment, and theoretical propositions
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are developed. Grounded in existing information facts revision of a
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study.
Case study - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Investigation in which a "case"
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(person, event, activity, or individuals) are studied extensively. Ex-
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medical cases... Looking at particular clinical cases.
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Four basic ways of collecting data for qualitative study - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-Observations, interviews, documents, visual materials. | | | |
Observations - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-researcher makes notes about
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behaviors/events and field notes obtained in the natural environment | | | | | | | | |
(commonly used with ethnographic studies) | | | |
Interviews - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Researcher asks a series of standard
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|questions to participants (commonly used with phenomenological and
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grounded theory studies) | |
