Test Bank Flashcards
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- Which of the following is an issue for a qualitative researcher doing advance planning
for a study?
A) Developing a hypothesis
B) Identifying statistical tests to be used
C) Determining the maximum amount of time available for fieldwork
D) Selecting research instruments
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C) Determining the maximum amount of time available for fieldwork
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2. You are a researcher who is conducting a study in which the data collection, data analysis, and sampling of participants occur simultaneously. What theory are you following in your study? A) Phenomenology B) Grounded theory C) Ethnography D) Critical
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B) Grounded theory
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- A new trend in nursing is to design research studies with an ideologic perspective. What
is a type of research with an ideologic perspective?
A) Grounded theory
B) Feminist research
C) Emergent design
D) Symbolic interaction
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B) Feminist research
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- A nurse researcher has designed a study focusing on the environment’s influence on
human behaviour. What type of research would this be?
A) Ethnography
B) Ethology
C) Ethnoscience
D) Ecological psychology
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D) Ecological psychology
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- A nursing student is participating in a research study that uses observational methods to
explore universal behavioral structures. What tradition is this study based on?
A) Ethnography
B) Hermeneutics
C) Ethnomethodology
D) Ethology
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D) Ethology
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6. Hermeneutics is closely allied to the research tradition known as: A) Ethnography B) Phenomenology C) Ethology D) Symbolic interaction
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B) Phenomenology
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7. In feminist research, gender is the organizing principle. Investigators seek to understand how gender and a gendered social order have shaped women's lives. The nurse researcher knows that feminist researchers stress what between researchers and participants? A) Discourse analysis B) Intersubjectivity C) Ernie perspective D) Bricolage
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B) Intersubjectivity
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8. The nursing instructor is discussing different disciplines that have guided qualitative research. What type of research would the instructor explain is typically action oriented with a broad aim of making people aware of and inspired to change contradictions and disparities in their beliefs and social practices? A) Critical research B) Grounded theory research C) Ecological psychology D) Ethnomethodology
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A) Critical research
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- A nurse researcher is conducting a descriptive phenomenologic study. The researcher will use four steps: bracketing, intuiting, analysing, and describing. What is bracketing?
A) Identifying preconceived ideas and working them into the study
B) Identifying and holding aside any preconceived ideas about the phenomenon under study
C) Compartmentalizing aspects of the phenomenon under study that you don’t agree with
D) Accepting or refuting preconceived ideas about the phenomenon under study
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B) Identifying and holding aside any preconceived ideas about the phenomenon under
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- In qualitative research the term emergent design means what?
A) The design emerges during the conduct of a literature review.
B) The design emerges while the researcher develops a conceptual framework.
C) The design emerges during the process of doing constant comparisons.
D) The design emerges while the researcher is in the field collecting data.
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D) The design emerges while the researcher is in the field collecting data.
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11. A procedure known as constant comparison is used in what approach to research? A) Grounded theory B) Ethnography C) Phenomenology D) Ethology
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A) Grounded theory
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12. A nurse is reading a research report. The study that is the subject of the report focuses on the environment's influence on human behaviour. What type of study is it? A) Ethnomethodologic B) Phenomenonologic C) Grounded theory D) Ecological psychology
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D) Ecological psychology
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13. A researcher asks the question "What is the essence of men's experiences of chemotherapy treatment for prostate cancer?" This is an example of a research question within which of the following traditions? A) Grounded theory B) Ethnography C) Phenomenology D) Ethology
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C) Phenomenology
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- When planning a qualitative research study, advance planning is important in some areas. What is one area where advance planning is important?
A) Identification of the key “gatekeepers”
B) Identification of the statistical tests to be used
C) The use of hermeneutics in the study
D) The use of ethology in the study
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A) Identification of the key “gatekeepers”
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15. What is the tendency to put together a complex array of data from various sources? A) Ethnoscience B) Hermeneutics C) Bricolage D) Ethology
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D) Ethology
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16. When a study is based on the realities and viewpoints of those under study, what study design is it? A) Hermeneutics B) Ecological psychology C) Ethnomethodology D) Emergent design
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D) Emergent design
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- Ethnographers tend not to study, but rather learn from the cultures they study. One of the aims of an ethnographic study is what?
A) To reveal tacit knowledge about a culture
B) To gain an etic perspective of the culture
C) To understand the microethnography of a culture
D) To learn the hermeneutics of a culture
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A) To reveal tacit knowledge about a culture
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- A researcher who is an ethnographer strives to do what?
A) Understand human cultures
B) Develop an etic perspective
C) Link the etic and emic perspectives into a unified whole
D) Create an etic and emic perspectives of a culture
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A) Understand human cultures
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- A researcher gets on an elevator and, instead of facing forward, faces backward toward other elevator passengers. This would be an example of:
A) An ethnographer’s attempt to gain an emic perspective
B) A phenomenologist’s effort to appreciate the essence of what the passengers are expenencing
C) An ethnomethodologist’s attempt to understand the social expectations regarding
behavior in an elevator
D) A discourse analyst’s attempt to listen to people’s conversation on an elevator
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C) An ethnomethodologist’s attempt to understand the social expectations regarding
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20. A nurse is part of a research study based on the collaboration of the subjects and the researchers. This collaboration works to produce and use knowledge. What is the name of this research? A) Substantive research B) Grounded research C) Participatory action research D) Phenomenologic research
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C) Participatory action research
