Health Sciences 2801A/B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Repertory Grid, City Block, Morpheme
25 Nov 2016
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Thematic analysis: analyzing a narrative by grouping together phrases that are close in meaning; the aim of thematic analysis is to understand persons as meaning makers: general procedure for analyzing descriptions of personal experience. Repertory grid: different method of understanding persons as meaning makers. General procedure for examining the narratives that persons use to describe life experiences. 3 general steps: unitizing: identi cation of meaningful units within a narrative. Rating procedure for understanding a persons as makers of meaning. Involves rating an individualized set of elements on a series of personal constructs. Elements could be objects, events, persons, activities, or other constituents of lived experience. City block distances: measure of dissimilarity bw two sets of ratings, equal to the sum of the absolute diff bw the ratings. Cluster analysis: elements are grouped together such that there are smaller city block distances bw members of the same group and larger city block distances bw members of different groups.
