Exam 1: Perspectives on Research

Which of the following is NOT one of the four modes of triangulation articulated by Denzin (1970)?

Field research is most likely to occur in qualitative research

According to Occam's Razor, the best way to describe a theory is to express the idea as simply as possible.

Positivism is to phenomenologism as ______ is to ______.

The high level of concern about violent crime in the United States despite the steadily dropping rates illustrates that humans' perceived reality should be taken into account. This relates to what philosophical view?

Quantitative researchers do not want to get too close to participants because they do not want to ______.

Potential negative outcomes related to getting close to participants include all of the following EXCEPT ______.

Identify the role of academic freedom in higher education and infer how it influences the research experiences for scholars at institutions of higher learning. Analyze the current climate and perception of academic freedom and your perception of the potential benefits or issues with exercising academic freedom.

Differentiate between inductive and deductive researchers and compare the benefits and limitations with each approach. Also describe when a researcher may choose one approach over the other and discuss the possibility of using both inductive and deductive approaches.

Which perspective views human perception as essential to understanding human behavior due to knowledge and truth being created by the mind?

Summarize the idea of bridging approaches and give an example of an appropriate time to utilize both quantitative and qualitative research.

Some researchers utilize both quantitative and qualitative methods, what is the term used to decribe the intergration of both methods?

A qualitative researcher would define success as ______.

______ is the intimate and empathic understanding of human action in terms of its interpetive meaning to the participant.

In quantitative research, researchers should take on the perspective of those they study and not be detached and analytic.

______ research is more likely to occur in qualitative research, while ______ research is more likely to occur in quantitative research.

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of qualitative research?

The philosophical position that appreciates the realist-constructionist dichotomy is ______.

The economic system under which you were born is considered to be ______ by researchers.

______ researchers are more likely to believe that behavior must be extracted from its context to be studied.