Test Bank

Question 1

1. 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

Answer 1

C) Determining the maximum amount of time available for fieldwork

Question 2

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

Answer 2

B) Grounded theory

Question 3

3. 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

Answer 3

B) Feminist research

Question 4

4. 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

Answer 4

D) Ecological psychology

Question 5

5. 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

Answer 5

D) Ethology

Question 6

6. Hermeneutics is closely allied to the research tradition known as:
A) Ethnography
B) Phenomenology
C) Ethology
D) Symbolic interaction

Answer 6

B) Phenomenology

Question 7

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

Answer 7

B) Intersubjectivity

Question 8

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

Answer 8

A) Critical research

Question 9

9. 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

Answer 9

B) Identifying and holding aside any preconceived ideas about the phenomenon under

Question 10

10. 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.

Answer 10

D) The design emerges while the researcher is in the field collecting data.

Question 11

11. A procedure known as constant comparison is used in what approach to research?
A) Grounded theory
B) Ethnography
C) Phenomenology
D) Ethology

Answer 11

A) Grounded theory

Question 12

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

Answer 12

D) Ecological psychology

Question 13

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

Answer 13

C) Phenomenology

Question 14

14. 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

Answer 14

A) Identification of the key “gatekeepers”

Question 15

15. What is the tendency to put together a complex array of data from various sources?
A) Ethnoscience
B) Hermeneutics
C) Bricolage
D) Ethology

Answer 15

D) Ethology

Question 16

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

Answer 16

D) Emergent design

Question 17

17. 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

Answer 17

A) To reveal tacit knowledge about a culture

Question 18

18. 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

Answer 18

A) Understand human cultures

Question 19

19. 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

Answer 19

C) An ethnomethodologist’s attempt to understand the social expectations regarding

Question 20

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

Answer 20

C) Participatory action research