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Lecture 12 Flashcards

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Mainstream psychology characterization

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  • Controlled experiments
  • Statistics and measurement models
  • Objectifying as much as possible
  • Quantitative imperative: you cannot know what you cannot measure
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Strengths of quantitative research

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  • Lends itself well for statistical analyses of large datasets
  • Can produce precise predictions that can be tested
  • Makes comparison easier
  • Easier to investigate confounds and validity threats
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Weaknesses of quantitative research

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  • Little interest in the perception of participants
  • Research limited by what is measurable
  • Better suited to testing general theories than to finding solutions for specific problems
  • Not very suitable for generating theories
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Positivism in Psychology

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  • Research focused on discovering reality and causal relationships
  • Research is designed nomethetically, which is to say legislative. We search for general laws
  • People are considered interchangeable
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Thematic analysis

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  • Form of qualitative research
  • Method for systematically identifying, organizing, and offering insight into patterns of meaning across a data set
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Phases of TA (Thematic Analysis)

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  1. Becoming familiar with the data
  2. Generating initial codes
  3. Searching for themes
  4. Reviewing themes (quality control)
  5. Defining and naming themes
  6. Writing the report
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Grounded theory

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Systematic analysis to build a theory about a specific problem. Researcher writes a problem analysis based on interviews.
This method is very inductive.

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Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA)

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Puts more emphasis on the experience of the people studied. Interpretative ability of the researcer acts as a measuring instrument.

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Strengths of qualitative research

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  • Direct involvement in the situation
  • Generates theories and enables exploration
  • Responsive to the needs of participants
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Weaknesses of qualitative research

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  • Less suitable for demonstrating general laws
  • Little room for precise prediction/falsification
  • Less suitable for deciding between theories
  • Largely based on introspection and subjective evaluation
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Qualitative research complementary to quantitative research

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  • Generating theories
  • From general laws to applied cases
  • Well suited for quickly mapping out complex situations
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Maracek’s misconceptions about qualitative research

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  1. Qualitative and quantitative research provide the same understanding of something
  2. Qualitative research is a first exploration
  3. Qualitatitve research is purely inductive
  4. Qualitative research is the same as quantitative but without numbers
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Criteria for quantitative psychology

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  • Validity
  • Reliability
  • Replicability
  • Transparency
  • Generalizability
  • Objectivity
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Criteria for Qualitative psychology

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  • Rigour
  • Sensitivity to context
  • Coherence
  • Commitment
  • Impact and importance
  • Reflexivity
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Hermeneutics

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Theory and practice of interpretation which involves understanding that can be justified.

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Social constructionism

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Knowledge is a social construction.
Kenneth Gergen argues that psychology transforms reality instead of passively describing it.

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Postmodernism in psychology

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This movement rejects assumptions and principles in modernity: among other things, trust in science and technology.
Relativism and socially constructed reality.

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Alan Sokal

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Physicist who writes about there being no objective reality because there is also none in quantum mechanics. Writes that everything is relative and context dependent.
But it turns out that Alan making a parody and doesn’t believe any of this.

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Why did Alan Sokal lie in his paper

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He stated that there are some facts that do matter. Like enslavement of Africans and the Holocaust. He shows that there are political consequences to the relativist view.

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