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| Is qualitative research based around exploring or explaining? |
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| Exploring....in as much detail as poss |
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| Realism is defined as having one reality which exists outside the Mind |
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A Paradigm is a WORLDVIEW
" A way of thinking and making sense of the complexeities of the real world" |
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| What is a Positivism or a positivist? |
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A Posativist seeks the facts and causes of social phenomena apart from the subjective states of the individuals
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" The purpose of science is simply to stick to what we can observe and measure. Knowledge of anything beyond that, a positivist would hold, is impossible" |
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| What is inductive reasoning? |
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Inductive reasoning.. is more open-ended and exploratory, especially at the beginning..moving from specific observations to broader generalizations and theories.
Informally is called a bottom up approch
OBSERVATION------> PATTERN------->TENTATIVE HYPOTHASIS----------->THEORY
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| WHAT IS DEDUCTIVE REASONING??? |
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Deductive reasoning works from the more general to the more specific....TOP DOWN Approach.
THEORY------->HYPOTHESIS------->OBSERVATION------>CONFIRMATION
Deductive reasoning is usually part of quantitative studies and relies heavily on facts andfigures ( DATA) |
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Positivism believes that science can and should use the methods of the natural sciences, (e.g. physics and chemistry).
Quantitative research and deductive reasoning
Randomised conrol trials , surveys ect |
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| Empirical data is based on data |
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| Parsimonious is about keeping it simple! |
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What characterises Pseudoscience?
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- lacks precise and detailed description
- No peer review
Convince with appeal to emotions and beliefs
personal interests involved
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| If Quantitative is Deductive, Qualitative is |
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| A law that has been substantially verified |
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| The experimental researcher manipulates which variable? |
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| Independent Variable (IV) |
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| the scientist measures the ? |
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what is "Cum hoc ergo propter hoc" ?
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| “With this therefore because of this” to describe the fallacy to assume that correlation is causation. |
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| in non experimental research it is hard to prove what? |
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| nonexperimental research is observational, therefor is hard to prove causation |
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| what are the key features of experimental research? |
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| manipulation and control of the extraneous variable |
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| the extent in which the test measures what it is designed to measure |
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| what are the 4 different measures of validity? |
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- Face validity
- Construct validity
- Internal validity
- External Validity
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| does the test appear to measure what is designed to measure |
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| What is contruct validity? |
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| Construct validity shows what is hard to measure as in Psychology and self esteem. Construct validity has to be taken in conjunction with other research results and hypothesis |
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| What is internl validity? |
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| Internal vlidity is where all external variables are accounted for, being able to say with confidence that change in DV occured because of change in IV |
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| what is external validity? |
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is the process of generalization, and whether results obtained from a small sample group, often in laboratory surroundings, can be extended to make predictions about the entire population
Read more: http://www.experiment-resources.com/external-validity.html#ixzz22pvIcHS8 |
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Meaurement is the assignment of numbers or categories to objects or events
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