Social Science
Research
Treating all participants equally.
Justice
A question that identified the phenomenon to be studied.
Research Question
This type of interview is common for telephone interviews and medical exams.
Structured Interview
Patterns in your data that are relevant to your research question.
Themes
Organizes and summarizes knowledge, providing a roadmap for explaining, interpreting, and predicting human behavior
Theory
Providing participants information at the end of the study that you couldn't give them in the beginning.
Debriefing
The point in qualitative data collection at which no new information is being added and existing information is not challenged.
Data Saturation
The idea that when participants interact, new data and insights will come up.
A researchers' first impressions and reflections on the data.
Analytical Memo
We can only know what can be observed.
Empiricism
Writing a research article about a study you claimed to conduct (but did not actually conduct) is a violation of what type of ethical responsibility?
Scientific Responsibility
The extent to which data interpretations can be validated as dependable.
Credibility.
The most common type of qualitative interview.
Semi-Structured
Analyzing data using an inductive, bottom-up approach (e.g. using your data to create your 'boxes')
Emic
When the researcher moves from the specifics of their data to reach a new understanding / create a theory.
Inductive Research
Dr. Jones takes a participants' quotes out of context in their research paper in order to support their conclusions. In doing so, they misrepresented what their participant actually meant. This is a violation of Dr. Jones' ______________________.
Responsibility to Participants
Taking research findings back from participants for feedback.
Member Validation
The list of questions a focus group moderator will use.
Discussion Guide / Protocol
Analyzing data using a deductive, top-down approach (e.g. using pre-existing 'boxes' to sort your data)
Etic
The title of the book Stanley Milgram wrote to summarize the results of his shock experiments.
Obedience to Authority
Benefits of a study must outweigh the potential for harm.
Beneficence.
An explanation of how a variable / construct is being measured.
Operational Definition
The company that created the second commercial we watched on Focus Groups day.
Gillette
When coding categories are collapsed and organized via axial coding, and when all data are coded into a category.
Theoretical Saturation