IPA (1) Flashcards
What is the focus of interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA)?
An individual’s personal experiences, and how the individual makes sense of them.
What does IPA’s stance on experience concede?
That there is no direct route or access to it as we cannot look directly into someone’s mind and see or hear how they are experiencing something.
Why are we really looking to get experience close with IPA, as opposed to experience far?
As this is the best we can manage due to their being no direct route or access to experience.
Which three concepts underpin IPA theoretically?
- The concept of phenomenology (the philosophical study of objectivity and reality as subjectively lived and experienced).
- The concept of hermeneutics (the branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation).
- The concept of discovering particular scientific facts and processes, as distinct from general laws.
What is an example of a topic that could undermine one’s sense of self?
Pain
What are four conclusions that could be drawn, according to IPA, from the following passage: “It’s not who I am, it’s just who I am if you know what I mean? It’s not really me- I get like that. And I know like you’re being mean now, but I can’t help it. It’s the pain. It’s me, but it is me. Me doing it but not me, do you understand what I’m saying? If I was to describe myself like you said, I’m a nice person, but then I’m not am I?”?
- This individual is struggling to associate with her identity.
- This individual is sensing a certain amount of pressure from society.
- This individual feels vulnerable to being punished.
- This individual has the conflicting desire to exhibit both self-compassion and self-criticism.
What is an example of implications on which IPA may shed a light?
Those for medicine and clinical psychology.
How is context derived in manifest content analysis?
From the visible and literal meaning of the words- taken at face value.
What would you apply, in latent content analysis, to infer underlying meanings from the words or phrases you are choosing to analyse?
A deeper, more interpretive analysis than with a manifest content analysis.
What is an example of the difference between manifest and latent content analysis?
- With manifest content analysis, we would interpret Kevin’s statement “Are we all going to get rounded up and taken to a camp somewhere?” at face value.
- With latent content analysis, we might interpret the fact that he mentions a camp in his statement as referring to a prison camp.
What is the hermeneutic circle, according to ancient rhetoric and hermeneutics?
That of a whole and its parts: we can only understand the parts of a text, or any body of meaning, out of a general idea of its whole, yet we can only gain this understanding of the whole by understanding its parts.
How is experience accessed through “a process of intersubjective meaning-making”?
As the participant interprets their experience within the research interaction and the researcher interprets the resulting accounts through their analytic work.
