What are the central features of narrative as a data source?
What will be an ideal response?
• It involves information structured by way of a story that a person relates from their own experience.
• It is a form of self-reporting – in narrative a person describes, explains and evaluates past experiences in their own life, as interpreted by them.
• Narrative is a complex source of information, involving many layers of information about an episode or event.
• A narrative builds an integrated picture of an event, experience or activity through separate fragments of information.
• The method can explore complicated research questions, which require responses on many levels.
You might also like to view...
Which lobes are associated with higher cognitive functions, such as planning, inhibiting impulses and emotion, language production, and voluntary movement?
A) frontal B) parietal C) temporal D) occipital
Space enclosed by a continuous boundary will most likely be perceived as
a. a figure-ground reversal. b. having no background. c. background. d. a figure. e. a ground.
The four goals of psychology are to describe, explain, ____________, and influence behavior and mental processes
a) increase b) decrease c) predict d) standardize
What differences exist between males and females with regard to verbal skills?
A. There are no significant differences between females and males in writing; girls outperform boys in reading. B. There are no significant differences between females and males in reading; girls outperform boys in writing. C. Females outperform males on reading and writing only in elementary school; by high school the scores are the same in verbal skills. D. Females outperform males in reading and writing.