Define: Qualitative methods

What will be an ideal response?


Research where there is more emphasis on tapping into the experiences, assumptions, and meanings subjects give to their situations. The researcher wishes to be led by the participants into seeing what they deem as important.

Psychology

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Describe peer relationships during the middle childhood years

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology

The process organizations use to identify qualified individuals for a job is ____

a. recruitment b. selection c. determination d. discovery

Psychology

Which is NOT true of Manning’s (2014) study about online dating?

a. He found that participants wanted to find a romantic partner who had a mixture of both positive and negative characteristics. b. Manning concluded that including certain information in an online ad (such as a desire for an attractive or financially stable partner) is off limits because it makes the writer appear desperate or as though he or she doesn’t know how to “play the [dating] game.” c. The results of this study suggest that looking for a romantic partner online may be similar to other forms of online “shopping.” d. Manning found that many pertinent sought-after characteristics were not specifically stated in the online ads.

Psychology

Some of the earliest psychologists to take up the challenge of studying learning were of the __________ school of thought, which suggested that we can only study that which can be seen and observed

a. behavioral b. nomothetic c. ideographic d. empirical

Psychology