HLSC 3910U Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sleep Deprivation, Antipositivism
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Epistemology: positivism, create a structured questionnaire for adolescents regarding their sleep habits and schedules, symptoms of sleep disorders and school performance. Interpretivism: understand what is affecting the participant the most. Methodology: quantitative, use tests that will measure reaction time (speed and accuracy) memory recall (short and long term, qualitative: This approach uses open-ended research questions looking for deeper meaning. For instance, why do the subjects think they have or experience sleep deprivation? https://www. ncbi. nlm. nih. gov/pmc/articles/pmc2656292/ This article uses statistics/tests and looked at male and female sleeping patterns, which suggest that the quantitative methodology along with objectivism approach was used in this study. However, i also think qualitative approach is also applied here, but it is very subtle and may not affect the outcome of this study. In the study i chose, the researchers used a psychomotor vigilance test (pvt) to see if there would be a decline in attention and memory in the different groups assigned to different periods of sleep.
