Lecture 1

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Which is the easiest qualitative strategy

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Thematic analysis

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Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is

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Exploring the participants lived experience of the subject by condensing material from interview into themes (key lived experience)

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All 4 qualitative strategies have

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Thematic analysis embedded

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Epistemology refers to

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A theory of knowledge

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Discourse analysis is where you take up a constructionist position ie

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You’re interested in the language used to talk about your subject

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Basic definition of qualitative research

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Uses words as data. Collected and analysed in all sorts of ways

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What dies paradigm refer to

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Beliefs, assumptions, values, practices shared by a research community. Provides framework for research

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Qualitative research generates

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Narrow but rich data with thick descriptions

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Qualitative research is used as a precursor to

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Quantitative research

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Fundamental about qualitative research is that it does not assume

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There is only one correct version of reality or knowledge but multiple

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In qualitative research We must not

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Consider knowledge outside of the context in which it is generated

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What are 3 basic qualitative frameworks?

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Searching for patterns
Looking at interaction
Looking at stories

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What are two branches of philosophy concerned with science

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Epistemology

Ontology

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What is epistemology?

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Asks questions about knowledge, beliefs and truth

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What is ontology?

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Asks questions about what things there are in the world

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What is an entity?

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Things we can physically touch

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What is a representation?

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Ways of conceptualising and describing entities

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Realism is the view that

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Our representations of things in the world are reflections of the way those things actually are.

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Relativism is the view that our representations of

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The things in the world are socially constructed and can’t seen as simple reflections of how those things actually are.

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What is ecological validity?

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How well we can generalise the results from research to situations in the real world.

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Thematic analysis is where you

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Condense the material into codes, minor themes and then major themes

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What are the 5 tasks involved in doing psychology?

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1. Examining how ppl think feel behave
2. Discover what influences this
3. Determine consequences of this
4. Explore individual perspective of meanings attached to things
5. Examine how ideas events and things are represented in language and made sense of

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First 3 tasks of doing psychology are what type of research method…

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Quantitative

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Two traditional epistemological frame works for psych are:

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Positivism

Empiricism

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In positivism out language reflects

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What's there (straightforward relationship)

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Language is always

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Representational

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Empiricism is where knowledge if the world must be derived from

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Facts of experience (all knowledge claims grounded in data)

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Qualitative research is

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Empirical (still collecting and analysing data)

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An assumption of empiricism is that knowledge acquisition proceeds through

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A systematic collection and classification of observations - theory generated from this.

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Constructionist is based on what approach?

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Qualitative

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Empiricist is

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All knowledge claims must be grounded in data

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Empirical is

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Research involving collection and analysis of data

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Three criteria within positivism and empiricism are

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Parsimony Falsifiability Heuristic value

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Parsimony is

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The ability to be able to explain a broad range of phenomena

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Heuristic value is

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Must build on existing knowledge by constantly generating hypotheses

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Why is self report not a viable observation method in the scientific method?

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It is contaminated by individuals own subjective biases.

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Good science is

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Unbiased and value free. Unaffected by the perspectives of the observer or the individual who is observed.

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What is the most important method for psychology?

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Experimentation

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Why is experimentation the most important method for psychology?

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Allows for control and manipulation of variables needed to est. causal relations btwn pairs of variables

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What is also important in conducting a research study?

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Replication

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Why is replication important?

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Allows building of causal laws by being able to see entities/phenomena that always occur together in a particular relationship

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Good psychological research should always be undertaken using a

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Quantitative framework - objectivity free from bias

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Two debates central to critique of poppers Hypothetico-deductivism model...

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Causality vs meaning | Individualism vs contextualise

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Relativist social constructionism has 4 tenets:

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Representations No truth Language Meaning and context