Research, systematic inquiry aimed at the discovery of new knowledge, is a central ingredient of the scientific method in psychology. It provides the key to understanding the degree to which hypotheses (and the theories behind them) are accurate. Just as we can apply different theories and hypotheses to explain the same phenomena, we can use a number of alternative methods to conduct research.…
What are the DESCRIPTIVE research methods? Please discuss some of the pro’s and con’s of EACH method.…
It should represent the population. The best way for this to happen is by random sampling (= taken at random from the population- e.g. selecting students from every school in your country)…
The history of Cirque du Soleil traces back to the 1980s. That was when Guy Laliberté and Daniel Gauthier decided to gather a group of young street performers in Quebec and founded Le Club des Talons Hauts. In 1981, they organized the Fête foraine of Baie-Saint-Paul, a cultural event in which street artists from all over met to exchange ideas and enliven the streets of the city.…
I.After the war, there were many questions over what to do with the free Blacks, such as how to reintegrate the Southern states into the Union, what to do with Jefferson Davis, and who would be in charge of Reconstruction?…
1. Describe how you would use this method in researching human behavior and what topics you might study.…
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi is a text that persuades the readers that the “control of mind” is the best way to achieve happiness. Csikszentmihalyi created the psychological concept of flow. Csikszentmihalyi uses his book to best explain his concept to the common people and the best way to achieve it. He uses many examples and explains how to achieve flow and why it is the key to happiness. Csikszentmihalyi states that the concept of flow is useful in professions like sociologist, psychologist and even anthropologist, but it isn’t just an academic concept. Csikszentmihalyi makes a powerful argument that people are the happiest in the state of flow and that control of it is possible.…
Participant observation is where the researcher joins the group or community they are studying, the researcher will participate in the activities over a period of time, to do this, the researcher attempts to become accepted in order to collect more valid research and to try and see the world in the way the group does. There are two types of participant observation, Covert and Overt. Covert participant observation is where the researcher will take an undercover role in order to do research into the group they wish to study, there is normally a ‘gate keeper’ within this group that knows the researcher is there to do research, the gate keeper helps get them into the group to do this research. Overt participant observation is where the researcher takes a more open role; they openly ask the group if they will allow the researcher to study them.…
The type of research that is usually being used uses a mixture of observational and interview methods. Furthermore it might also include documents or questionnaires.…
13) that involves scoring of the participants in to such a degree that empowers dependable data. The “Scoring Survey Protocols” (Schommer-Aikens & Hutter, 2002, p. 13) technique originates the most obvious information from the participants. Using “Predicting Thinking Dispositions” (Schommer-Aikens & Hutter, 2002, p. 15) is obvious and this technique uses epistemological beliefs that occur in the contentious subjects from the survey. The means and standard deviance of contentious subjects goes through assessment to estimate the…
The phenomenological qualitative research process is when the researcher endeavors to understand and illustrate how one or more contributors experience a phenomenon. According to Creswell (2009), the phenomenon is a lived experience and the researcher attempts to gain access to the contributor’s subjective experience. The type of question for phenomenological research would be about the experience, and the question would be open-ended so that the question can lead to further inquiry. A designed form of the questionnaire as noted by Hopwood (2004), written by the researcher and may be used in a number of applied ranges of circumstances. Hopwood (2004) reported that semi-structured interviews to be used in multiple-method case study which will establish reliability. Validity of account would be used in this kind of method example. Triangulation across time and response formats will add reliability. Ethnographic research of the qualitative process focuses on the discovery and description of the culture of a group of people and a cultural event. The shared beliefs, practices, and values a group uses to understand the world…
Erlandson, D. A., Harris, E. L., Skipper, B. L., & Allen, S. (1993). Doing naturalistic inquiry: A…
Van Veen concluded, "There seems to be a lot in our brains and animal brains that is…
For my field research, I used two different methods. Participant-observation and Interviews. I felt pretty out of place and like I was intruding on “their world”. I felt that everyone knew I was watching them and writing things down in a notebook about what they were doing so…
According to Schneider, Elliot, LoBiondo-Wood & Haber (2004), qualitative research methods, search for the meaning and understanding of human experiences in a naturalistic setting. A researcher obtains subjective facts in order to explore the experiences of each participant (Schneider, Elliot, LoBiondo-Wood & Haber 2004). As a result, qualitative research is a means in which a researcher gains an insight into the participant's point of view concerning their personal experiences; in order gain an understanding of the information given. Therefore this allows a researcher to collect subjective information to create a description of the phenomenon (Vishnevsky & Beanlands 2004).…