NURS 350 Final Exam Questions and
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Quantitative Methodology Part I - ✔✔
The Naturalistic Paradigm: Ontological Assumptions - ✔✔There is a real
world
The real world is experienced and apprehended subjectively and
individually
Reality may therefore appear different or have different attributes as
perceived by individuals
Ontology in research is concerned with what actually exists in the world
about which humans can acquire knowledge
The Naturalistic Paradigm: Epistemological Assumptions - ✔✔Reality can
only be known as the holistic composite of individual experiences
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,Reality is:
- Contextually based (based on our setting and context)
- Subjective (based on individual experience)•
- Intersubjective (co-created through group experience)
Truth is relative rather than absolute
Epistemology in research is concerned with knowledge - that is how do we
obtain knowledge, and what knowledge do we value as being credible
Ontology - ✔✔Multiple realities
Subjectivism
Truth, or meaning, comes into existence in and out of our engagement with
realities in our world
Epistemology - ✔✔Knowledge, and therefore all meaningful reality as such,
is contingent upon human practices, being constructed in and out of
interaction between human beings and their world, and developed and
transmitted within an essentially social context
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,The Naturalistic Paradigm: Methodological Assumptions - ✔✔Strict
adherence to 'scientific method' is itself limiting and biased, therefore
'objectivity' and 'control' are essentially meaningless
Phenomena are best understood holistically (role of the body, mind, social
context and interaction)
Analysis and interpretation are inevitably coloured by the researcher's own
subjectivity
Qualitative Research - ✔✔A form of inquiry
Attempts to make sense of the world, to interpret phenomena and
experiences of living in the world
The researcher is in the natural setting/shapes the research -> naturalistic
The researcher is the research instrument
Rich and holistic
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, Honours participants' local meanings
A process that turns the world into multiple representations
Why Choose a Qualitative Research Design? - ✔✔Nature of the research
question
Topic needs to be explored
Topic needs in-depth description
Tell the story from the person's perspective
See and hear what people do
To study context that sparks curiosity
Preference of the researcher
Explain, illuminate or reinterpret quantitative data
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Answers 100% Solved | Graded A+
Quantitative Methodology Part I - ✔✔
The Naturalistic Paradigm: Ontological Assumptions - ✔✔There is a real
world
The real world is experienced and apprehended subjectively and
individually
Reality may therefore appear different or have different attributes as
perceived by individuals
Ontology in research is concerned with what actually exists in the world
about which humans can acquire knowledge
The Naturalistic Paradigm: Epistemological Assumptions - ✔✔Reality can
only be known as the holistic composite of individual experiences
1
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
,Reality is:
- Contextually based (based on our setting and context)
- Subjective (based on individual experience)•
- Intersubjective (co-created through group experience)
Truth is relative rather than absolute
Epistemology in research is concerned with knowledge - that is how do we
obtain knowledge, and what knowledge do we value as being credible
Ontology - ✔✔Multiple realities
Subjectivism
Truth, or meaning, comes into existence in and out of our engagement with
realities in our world
Epistemology - ✔✔Knowledge, and therefore all meaningful reality as such,
is contingent upon human practices, being constructed in and out of
interaction between human beings and their world, and developed and
transmitted within an essentially social context
2
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
,The Naturalistic Paradigm: Methodological Assumptions - ✔✔Strict
adherence to 'scientific method' is itself limiting and biased, therefore
'objectivity' and 'control' are essentially meaningless
Phenomena are best understood holistically (role of the body, mind, social
context and interaction)
Analysis and interpretation are inevitably coloured by the researcher's own
subjectivity
Qualitative Research - ✔✔A form of inquiry
Attempts to make sense of the world, to interpret phenomena and
experiences of living in the world
The researcher is in the natural setting/shapes the research -> naturalistic
The researcher is the research instrument
Rich and holistic
3
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
, Honours participants' local meanings
A process that turns the world into multiple representations
Why Choose a Qualitative Research Design? - ✔✔Nature of the research
question
Topic needs to be explored
Topic needs in-depth description
Tell the story from the person's perspective
See and hear what people do
To study context that sparks curiosity
Preference of the researcher
Explain, illuminate or reinterpret quantitative data
4
©JOSHCLAY 2024/2025. YEAR PUBLISHED 2024.
