What is often confused with qualitative methods?
a) Anecdotal case studies
b) Multiple treatment design
c) No-treatment control design
d) No-contact control design
Question 2Which of the following is a key characteristic of qualitative research?
a) Strong control of the protocol
b) Consistent application of the manipulation
c) Short contact between experimenter and participants
d) Define how people interpret situations
Question 3Interpretative validity is used to
a) Describe the extent to which a study appears valid
b) Formally evaluate measures
c) Indicate the extent to which a measure appears to assess the construct of interest
d) Determine the psychometric properties of a measure under evaluation
Question 4The constructs and concepts that emerge from qualitative techniques are ideal for
a) Determining the impact of a treatment
b) Controlling threats to validity
c) Large studies with multiple variable s
d) Designing new measures
Question 5Qualitative designs are most interested in understanding which of the following?
a) The group
b) The quality of the treatment of interest
c) The individual
d) Isolating the phenomenon of interest from everyday experience
Question 6Qualitative designs typically utilize which strategy to add validity to the study?
a) Triangulation
b) Multiple perspectives
c) Randomly chosen participants
d) Utility
Question 7The interpretation of qualitative data is typically based upon
a) A consensus involving other experimenters and participants
b) Similar inferential statistics used in quantitative research
c) Multiple regression
d) ABAB designs
Question 8Why is subjectivity considered a problem in qualitative research?
a) Because of the concern for high external validity
b) Participants typically offered biased responses
c) Researchers may overly bias interpretation of the findings
d) Researchers discuss research findings with their colleagues
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