Terms
factual note gathered using your senses or tools. Examples span across science, early childhood education, and workplace safety.
What is Observation?
The counterpart of the research method where those being watched are aware of the fact.
What is a covert observation?
The most famous case study in psychology about a man with chronic epilepsy.
Who is Henry Molaison (HM)?
Name one of the three types of interviews.
What are structured, semi-structured, and focus group interviews?
A "locked in" heavy-bodied warm ocean fish, barring the derivational and inflectional suffixes
What is a Focus Group (Focused Grouper)?
The researcher becomes a part of the group they are watching.
What is Participant observation?
The counterpart of the sample that reflects key characteristics of the larger population.
What is an Unrepresentative Sample?
The iron rod damaged his frontal lobe, causing major changes in personality and behavior.
Who is Phineas Gage?
Name one of the two ways to reduce bias in collecting qualitative data
What are Triangulation and Reflexivity?
Putting rectangular categorical stickers on universal truths about the human condition.
What is Labelling Themes?
Developing codes and themes from the data itself rather than starting with predetermined categories.
What is Inductive coding/Inductive Theming Analysis?
The counterpart to data gathered that can be measured with numerical values.
What is Qualitative Data?
He eats only McDonald's food for 30 days to explore the fast-food industry's impact on the American obesity epidemic.
What is Super Size Me ?
Name one of the six steps of thematic analysis.
What is either familiarization, coding raw data, grouping codes into themes, reviewing themes, labelling themes, or presenting findings?
At a supermarket, the yummy morsel of 7-eleven that you might get for free.
What is a Convenience Sample?
The first few participants found in a snowball sample
What are the Seeds?
The counterpart to the type of questions asked in an interview that have one, definitive correct or incorrect answer
What is an Open-ended Question?
a massive cross-cultural study surveying 10,047 participants across 37 cultures and 6 continents. The study investigated human mate preferences, testing whether evolutionary and biological factors shape what men and women look for in romantic partners worldwide.
Who is David Buss?
Name one of the three methods of oberservation.
What are covert observations, participant observations, and naturalistic observations?
The grammatical role that a noun or pronoun plays in a sentence, examined.
What is a Case Study?
Data is gathered using more than one method. For example, an observation and an interview might be used in the same study.
What is Methodological triangulation?
The counterpart to a researcher investigating many individuals, gathering only a little bit of information from each.
What is a case study?
They placed rats in water-filled jars to see how long they could swim before giving up, concluding that a brief intervention and the resulting "hope" of rescue dramatically extended their physical endurance.
What is behavioral despair test?
Name one of the three types of triangulation
What is Data triangulation, Research triangulation, and Methodological triangulation?
In sewing, the 45-degree diagonal angle across the threads of a woven fabric.
What is the Bias?