A research paradigm that assumes reality is ordered, fixed, and measured.
What is positivism?
100
An interview where the same questions are asked of all participants with allowance for follow-up, probing, or exploring other areas.
What is a semi-structured interview?
100
The part of a research paper that lists the sources a researcher has cited in their paper.
What is a reference list/page?
100
Focuses on the study of a culture or cultural group.
What is ethnography?
100
A numerical piece of data that characterizes a sample or population
What is a statistic?
200
The assumption that there is no relationship between the the variables that the research predicted.
What is the null hypothesis?
200
A qualitative approach to collecting data in which you gather multiple participants at once to see how they talk together about a topic.
What is a focus group?
200
This section of a a research paper situates the study within previous research. It is common to papers written by communication researchers using any of the methods we have studied this semester.
What is a literature review?
200
The subject of study for a rhetorical critic.
What is a text or artifact?
200
Used to describe a population, like frequencies, modes, medians, means, ranges, and standard deviations
What is a descriptive statistic?
300
Researchers must give participants sufficient information about the study, including potential risks and benefits, in order for them to determine whether they want to take part in the study.
What is informed consent?
300
Involves the analysis of transcriptions of everyday interpersonal and social interactions in sequences.
What is conversation analysis?
300
In a quantitative article, this section provides the detail regarding the procedure researchers followed when collecting data.
What is the methodology section?
300
This form of rhetorical criticism attempts to understand how power related to gender is constructed within a text.
What is feminist criticism?
300
Groups, organizations, or cultures in which research is conducted.
What is a field site?
400
This method of quantitative data collection is best for establishing a causal connection between variables
What is an experiment?
400
For this approach, researchers can use interviews, focus groups,observations, and/or reflexivity, to analyze behavior in social situations. They will inevitably apply coding to their data in hopes of drawing conclusions that help to generate theory.
What is grounded theory?
400
The part of the quantitative paper which highlights the problem being studied, and its social relevance.
What is the introduction?
400
This type of rhetorical criticism is based on the work of Kenneth Burke, who explained that humans use symbols to create action. When using this method, a critic will look at the interaction between elements such as scene, agent, and agency in the text.
What is dramatistic criticism?
400
An ethnographer who has little to no interaction with the people they are studying.
What is a complete observer?
500
The tendency for subjects to respond differently when they know they are being observed
What is the Hawthorne effect?
500
This approach relies on interviews, artifacts, reflexivity, focus groups, and participation to help a researcher understand the meaning or essence of lived experience.
What is phenomenology?
500
This section of a paper is common in quantitative and qualitative (social scientific) research papers, but is often omitted from rhetoric papers.
What is the methodology section?
500
Focuses on understanding lived experience and lived practices from the perspective of those within the experience. Emphasizes the process of "mak[ing] the familiar strange."