Something Like a Phenomenon
Opposites Attract
Who's That Girl? (or Guy?)
You Oughta Know
Life is a Mystery
100
Organized information intended to explain phenomena and engage in reasoning
What is a theory?
100
Concepts that are created and measurable
What are constructs?
100
Known as the mother of modern nursing
Who is Florence Nightingale?
100
Influences or causes something to happen to another variable
What is an independent variable?
100
A theory that has yet to be adequately tested and its logical adequacy has yet to be determined
What is speculative theory?
200
Observable connections between two or more objects, events, people or ideas
What are phenomena?
200
Research focused on analyzing phenomena as they exist and occur naturally
What is qualitative research?
200
She did extensive qualitative research with chimpanzees in Africa beginning in 1960
Who is Jane Goodall?
200
A variable that has been influenced by another variable.
What is a dependent variable?
200
Valid, reliable and predictable information that has been derived from replicated research
What is established theory?
300
Perceived connections or relationships between two or more objects, events, people or ideas
What are noumena?
300
Research that uses scientific and empirically based methods, including hypothesis testing and statistical analysis
What is quantitative research?
300
Contemporary abductive reasoning theorist who, in 1999, asserted that the nursing profession should be renamed
Who is Jean Watson?
300
A statement that involves a directional relationship between two or more variables
What is a proposition?
300
Using established knowledge to lead you to smaller, more specific conclusions
What is deductive reasoning?
400
Products of organized thought about phenomena
What are ideas?
400
Research design with mixed methodologies
What is triangulation research?
400
Nursing professor specializing in qualitative research in palliative care, end-of-life and relational ethics
Who is David K. Wright?
400
Assumed truths that influence or have the potential to influence other concepts or propositions
What are assumptions?
400
Starting with smaller, narrower concepts and formulating new propositions that may lead to the development of new theories
What is inductive reasoning?
500
They "name and frame" phenomena
What are concepts?
500
Formal, foundational statements describing an anticipated and measurable response between two or more variables
What are hypotheses?
500
Nursing professor, bioethicist, psychologist and qualitative researcher in pediatric ethics
Who is Franco Carnevale?
500
A statement that involves a directional relationship between two or more variables
What is a proposition?
500
The formation of potential propositions based on personal/nursing knowledge, skills or values, not empirically based evidence or facts
What is abductive reasoning?
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