T1 Intro to Research

Question 1

multiple, systematic strategies to generate knowledge about human behavior, human experience, and human environments in which the thinking and action processes of the researcher are clearly specified so that they are logical, understandable, confirmable, and useful

Answer 1

RESEARCH

Question 2

focus on prediction and hypothesis testing

Answer 2

EXPERIMENTAL TYPE

Question 3

NOMOTHETIC

Answer 3

EXPERIMENTAL TYPE

Question 4

focus on understanding and interpreting human experience within the context in which experience occurs

Answer 4

NATURALISTIC INQUIRY

Question 5

IDIOGRAPHIC

Answer 5

NATURALISTIC INQUIRY

Question 6

being told by a respected or trusted source

Answer 6

Authority

Question 7

secondhand information that is not verified

Answer 7

Hearsay

Question 8

knowledge gained through incremental doing, evaluating, and modifying actions to achieve a desired outcome

Answer 8

Trial and error

Question 9

knowing indirectly through collective past experiences (also referred to as memory)

Answer 9

History

Question 10

knowing without verification

Answer 10

Belief

Question 11

knowing through divine belief;

Answer 11

Spiritual
understanding

Question 12

explanations of human experience based on previous unique and personal organization of one’s own experience

Answer 12

Intuition

Question 13

study outcomes, and conclusions need to be explicit, make sense, be precise, be intelligible, and be credible to the reader or research consumer

Answer 13

UNDERSTANDABLE

Question 14

claims made by the researcher should be supported by the evidence and research strategy andshould be accurate and credible

Answer 14

CONFIRMABLE

Question 14

researcher clearly and logically identifies the evidence and strategies used in the study

Answer 14

CONFIRMABLE

Question 15

the knowledge derived from a study should be purposive

Answer 15

USEFUL

Question 16

inform and potentially improveprofessional practice and client outcome

Answer 16

USEFUL