Researching Human Subjects: Interviews, Focus Groups, and Observation Research

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. A(n) ______ is a checklist for recording behaviour during observation research.

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. Which of these is a Question that is well-suited to qualitative methods?

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. Interviews are a particularly good strategy for getting information from _______, individuals who hold unique experiences of leadership or influence but are often busy and don't have time to participate in other forms of research.

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. Which of these sampling strategies is most likely to be used by a qualitative researcher working with human subjects?

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. Which of these tools does a qualitative researcher use to determine their sample size?

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. Which of these is an example of reactivity?

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. Which of these is not an important means of qualitative data collection from human subjects?

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. Which of these is not an important guideline for building an interview framework?

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. In order to run a focus group, you need a _______________ and a ______________.

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. One of the strengths of participant observation is that:

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. In qualitative research, data saturation is a common method used to establish the size of a sample.

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. Focus groups typically have two to three participants.

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. The Hawthorne effect occurs when subjects under observation alter their behaviour because of the researcher's presence.

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. In a focus group, a moderator is not supposed to ask questions.

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. Qualitative research never uses open-ended questions to gather data.

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. Honesty with research subjects is an important part of research ethics in qualitative research.

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. It is better to go into an interview without knowing any background information on the interviewee.

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. Purposive, snowball, and quota sampling are the preferred methods for creating a qualitative sample.

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. Qualitative research methods usually rely on structured data collection.

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. Qualitative data collection with human subjects can be used to identify plausible causal mechanisms.

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