Qualitative Analysis and Design

Question 1

little q

Answer 1

incorporating non-numerical data collection techniques into hypohetico-deductive research designs, similar to quantitative data analysis

Question 2

hypothetico deductive

Answer 2

the basis of mainstream experimental psychology, deriving hypotheses and testing them

Question 3

Big Q

Answer 3

open-ended, participant-led, bottom-up research methodologies concerned with theory generation and the exploration of meaning

Question 4

Epistemology

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a branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge. How, and what, can we know?

Question 5

Realism/realist knowledge

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seek to generate knowledge that captures and reflects as truthfully as possible something that is happening in the real world

Question 6

Phenomenology/ phenomenological knowledge

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seek to produce knowledge about subjective experience of research participants

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Social constructionism

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focus on the way in which people talk about their experiences, social construction of knowledge itself

Question 8

orthographic transcription

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what is said and who is speaking

Question 9

jeffersonian transcription

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what is being said and how it was said

Question 10

phases of thematic analysis

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1. familiarisation
2. coding - breaking down the data
3. generation of initial themes
4. develop and review themes
5. define/name themes
6. write up theoretical finding

Question 11

inductive orientation to data

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analysis driven by data

Question 12

deductive orientation to data

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analysis shaped by existing theoretical constructs

Question 13

semantic focus of meaning

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surface level, explicit meanings

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latent focus of meaning

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underlying/implicit meanings

Question 15

experimental qualitative framework

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aim to explore people’s perceptions and understandings

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critical qualitative framework

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interrogate/unpack meaning around a topic or issue

Question 17

realist theoretical framework

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capture truth and reality as expressed in the dataset

Question 18

phenomenological, social constructionist

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interrogate, unpack realities expressed in data

Question 19

reflexivity

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examining your own position/feelings/motives and how they influence your interpretations of the data

Question 20

Grounded Theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1967)

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data collection
- >
coding
->
theoretical sampling -> back to data collection, constant comparative analysis
->
theory

Question 21

idiographic

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uniqueness, subjective experiences

Question 22

IPA

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Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
aim:
indepth exploration of people’s lived expereinces and close examination of how people make sense of their experiences

Question 23

Discourse Analysis

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How things are said in written and spoken language. social context crucial
social constructionist epistemology

Question 24

nomothetic

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generalisability, objective, numerical data

Question 25

BPS primary ethical principles

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respect (value dignity) competence (maintain standards) responsibility (avoidance of harm) integrity (honesty, accuracy, fairness)

Question 26

open science

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routine preparation of and subsequent sharing of research data in publicly available repositories

Question 27

river of life

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exercise - metaphor depicting personal journey/history 1. define scope and reflect 2. frame 3. guide 4. contextualise 5. evaluate