Deck 10: Qualitative Approaches in Psychology

Question 1

1) Which qualitative approach assumes people use language to construct their perceived world and therefore conducts analysis of interactive speech?

A) Grounded theory
B) Interpretive phenomenological analysis
C) Discourse analysis
D) Thematic analysis

Answer 1

C

Question 2

2) Which qualitative approach analyses data and assumes theory will emerge from the data and does not impose prior theory on the data?

A) Grounded theory
B) Interpretive phenomenological analysis
C) Discourse analysis
D) Thematic analysis

Answer 2

A

Question 3

3) Which qualitative approach describes an individual's experiences from their own perspective whilst recognising the researcher's own interpretive influence?

A) Grounded theory
B) Interpretive phenomenological analysis
C) Discourse analysis
D) Thematic analysis

Answer 3

B

Question 4

4) Which qualitative approach analyses data into themes, is not epistemologically committed and can be used in descriptive or hypothesis testing work?

A) Grounded theory
B) Interpretive phenomenological analysis
C) Discourse analysis
D) Thematic analysis

Question 5

5) Reflexivity:

A) Holds that there are no alternative constructions of findings other than the researcher's
B) Is the position that the real world is reflected through research in an objective manner
C) Recognises the researcher's personal construction of reality and its influence on the research process
D) Believes it is easy, through research, to give an accurate and objective representation of what other people think and perceive in research.

Question 6

6) Feminist psychology:

A) Is the general study of women
B) Emphasises women's perspectives and gender politics in research
C) Is the psychological study of feminism
D) Claims that women think entirely differently from men

Question 7

7) Saturation:

A) Is a point in grounded theory research where it is decided that many more data are required in order to complete theory construction satisfactorily
B) Occurs when researchers recognise their own political influence on research outcomes
C) Is a stage in grounded theory research where it is felt additional data can only make a trivial further contribution
D) Is when researchers get wet conducting their research

Question 8

8) Purposive sampling:

A) Occurs when researchers make a conscious effort to sample randomly
B) Is the non-random sampling of individuals who are likely to be able to make further significant contributions to qualitative data collection
C) Occurs when participants make random suggestions as to how other people might make a contribution to data collection
D) Involves participants conducting their own research

Question 9

9) Endogenous research:

A) Involves group members conducting their own internal investigations of group culture and organisational norms
B) Involves the study of other cultures from the researchers' own
C) Is an external researcher's intense study of a culture from within
D) Involves external and intense study of a particular culture

Question 10

10) Action research:

A) Is the qualitative study of people's actions
B) Is the non-interventional psychological study of everyday situations to produce change
C) Is the interventional study of everyday situations to produce change using applied psychology
D) Is the description of any organisational research which studies internal participant actions