Methodology Flashcards
What are the steps in the scientific method?
- An observation
- a hypothesis
- Generate specific, testable prediction
- Planned observations
- Evaluate and conclude on whether hypothesis is correct
What is epistemology?
HOW can I gain knowledge?
What is the ONTOLOGICAL question?
WHAT can I gain knowledge about?
What is naturalistic, unobtrusive observation?
Participants do not know they are being watched.
Contrived observation
Lab - setting up a situation then observing
Participant observation
Researcher becomes part of the community
Hawthorne affect
Knowing you are being observed changes behaviour
Content analysis
Type of observational research where you review copy/content
Archival research
Research using historical records
Nomothetic
Studying a group
Idiographic
Studying a single case
Hermeneutic
Concerned with meaning not cause.
Ethonographic
Participant observer immersed into space
Phenomenological
Meaning from the participants perspective
Thematic analysis
explicit and implicit themes
Grounded theory
reiterative, theory generation
Discourse analysis
research method for understanding written words or language
Simple random sampling
Each person has an equal chance of being selected
Systematic sampling
Create a system to choose eg every 9th person in a list
Stratified Random Sampling
Capturing subgroups within a population and randomising participants within the group
Proportionate stratified random sampling
Selecting participants from subgroups in the same proportion as the population
Factors vs levels
Gender is a factor, levels within that factor are male and female
