Research Methods Paper 1 Flashcards
(18 cards)
Practical Issues
Time + money
Funding bodies
Skills + Training
Subject content
Ethical Issues
Informed consent
Anonymity + Confidentiality
Harm/ vulnerable groups
Covert research
Theroretical issues
Validity
Reliabilty
Represenativeness
Methodological perspective
Positivist- representativeness + reliability
Interpretivist- validity
Verstehen
Empathetic understanding, allowing meanings to be clarified
Cause + Effect relationship
How one event leads to another (result)
Hypothesis test
where untested theories or explanations can be proven or disproven
hawthorne effect
Felxible vs Inflexible
Correlation vs causation
Researchers rape
Rapport
Superficial data
Longitudanal vs moment
Qualitative
Quantitative
Triangulation