Counseling Research EDC 506 Chapter 1 Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards covering key philosophical research foundations, sources of knowledge, and research proposal steps from EDC 506 Chapter 1.

Method of Tenacity

A source of knowledge listed under philosophical research foundations that is prone to error.

Method of Authority

A source of knowledge listed under philosophical research foundations that is prone to error.

Method of Intuition

A source of knowledge listed under philosophical research foundations that is prone to error.

Direct Experience

A source of knowledge listed under philosophical research foundations that is prone to error.

Inductive Reasoning

A way of knowing where conclusions are probable not absolute, no theorem is final or perfect, and knowledge accumulates with time and evidence.

Positivism

A philosophical foundation where a scientist conjectures and designs an experiment using a hypothetico-deductive process to confirm or disconfirm results, with the goal of identifying causal relationships among variables.

Hypothetico-Deductive Process

A process used in positivism where a scientist conjectures and then designs an experiment whose results either confirm or disconfirm the conjecture.

Postpositivism

A philosophical foundation that shares the goal of a 'real' reality and discovering truth as an approximation, abandoning a theory when data fail to corroborate and recognizing that truth cannot be fully known due to probability.

Constructivism

A philosophical foundation that abandons the idea of a 'real' reality or truth in favor of constructed experience, emphasizing meaning attributed to an event where the investigator and participants are linked.

Hermeneutics and Dialectics

Methods used within constructivism to understand constructed experiences and meanings attributed to events.

Critical Theory

A philosophical foundation holding that social constructions are shaped by cultural and economic forces and take on the appearance of reality through power dynamics, with the goal of understanding these as social constructions rather than truths.

Scientific Method in Counseling

An approach used to advance knowledge in context, make discoveries, increase understanding of human behavior, establish relationships among events, develop theories, and solve practical problems.

Scientist-Practitioner Model

A model representing the relationship and integration between science and practice in counseling.

Evidence-Based Practice

Counseling practice that relies on research-based interventions.

Research Proposal

A twelve-step structure for research development, extending from introduction and problem statement through methodology, literature review, hypothesis, procedure, analysis, and scope and limitations.