APSY2216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Grounded Theory, Beck Depression Inventory, Causal Inference
7 May 2017
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Review of last class - types of research. Specific research questions/hypotheses with objective and quantifiable measures. Goal: to identify/quantify associations between variables in a way that is (more or less) generalizable. Can be descriptive or more groups, often by comparing averages. Single-subject research between two or more quantitative variables, allows predictions. More open-ended/flexible research questions, hypotheses, and measures. Researchers aim for transparency - identify biases, etc. Goal: to describe specific phenomena of interest to better understand situations and experiences. Always descriptive survey, interviews particular person, family, etc. , and analyzing a phenomenon that is happening within their lives perspective, trying to live the detailed lives of the people who are experiencing the phenomenon that you are studying. Narrative research - research that is about the narrative arc of a person"s. Grounded theory - goal is to come looking in particular at one phenomenon, sample is people who experience that phenomenon (ex:
