PSY 2174 Study Guide - Final Guide: Confounding, Random Assignment, Dependent And Independent Variables

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2174
• Professor: Yaroslav Konar

Document Summary

Long history in anthropology, sociology, education (primarily social science & humanities domains in health sciences, prominent in nursing research) Epistemology stresses human-centered approach which focuses on understanding how people think about the world and thereby act within it. Taps into how individuals interpret and assign meaning to their personal experiences and the exploration of interactions within various environments such as organizations, communities, and cultures. Unique ethical concerns: consent, researcher/participant relationship, privacy/confidentiality, data retention. Different assumptions from biomedical model: less hypothesis-driven, focusing more on emergence of concepts and theories. Principles based on inductive reasoning; diversity of approaches; a dynamic, reflective, and continuous research process; research partnerships; and, diverse, multiple, and often evolving contexts. Methodological approaches ethnography, participatory action, oral history, phenomenology, discourse analysis. Data from interviews, participant observation, focus groups, and textual sources [books, websites, transcripts, images etc. ] using content analysis techniques. Represents a large proportion of use in psychology.