Qualitative
A face-to-face dialogue is conducted to obtain information about specific aspects of a person’s behavior.
Interview
The statistics used to describe a summary of your data sample. You often find the Mean and SD reported here.
Descriptive Statistics
Arose as a movement from positivism
Post-positivism
Nature of being and reality.
Ontology
Means applying to the individual.
Idiographic
An interview with two or more individuals all discussing a common topic.
Focus Group Discussion
It is the variable that is thought to be affected by the manipulation of the independent variable.
Dependent Variable (DV)
The idea that the researcher, participant, and topic are assumed to be independent of one another.
Dualism
Language used to present study procedures and findings to the intended audience.
Rhetoric
Refers to universal laws and behaviors that transcend nations and cultures and apply to all humans.
Etic
This is an in-depth investigation of a single individual using direct interview, direct observation, review of records, interviews of those close to the person, and other data sources.
Case Study
The manipulation of the independent variable under carefully controlled conditions to see whether any changes occur in a dependant variable.
Experiment / Experimental Design
The reasoning of the scientific method; it is the practice of validating theories by means of formulating hypotheses.
Hypothetico-Deductive Approach
Relationship of the "knower" and "would-be knower"
Epistemology
Language specific.
Phonemic
In qualitative research, a more _______ approach or method of inquiry is used rather than scientific or experimental means which include the manipulation or control of variables.
Naturalistic
This statistical tool/technique refers to a set of procedures that compares and analyzes differences among multiple means.
Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
If positivism is to Theory Validation, post-positivism is to ______.
Theory Falsification
Role of researcher values
Axiology
This empirical concept referring to "lived experiences" is amenable to human science (qualitative) research.
Erlebnis
A design of qualitative inquiry used to understand how research participants construct stories and narratives from their own personal experiences.
Narrative Design
A design of study that investigates larger samples within a single point in time.
Cross-Sectional
Believes that the researcher's proactive values are expected to influence the research outcomes.
Critical-Ideological / Critical Theory
"Interpretative" understanding between researcher and participant
Hermeneutics / hermeneutical approach
The name of author of your reading, a 2005 article entitled "Qualitative Research in Counseling Psychology: A Primer on Research Paradigms and Philosophy of Science".
Joseph G. Ponterotto