Qualitative research

First psych lab in 1879. 'Founding father' of experimental psychology.

Wilhelm Wundt

Created new field focusing on ‘moral development’, utilised qualitative methods

Lawrence Kohlberg

Kohlberg: Used __ storytelling technique (moral development), 72 Chicago boys, [10-16], 58 followed up three yearly intervals for 20 yrs

Piaget’s

Known for creating his hierarchy of needs, defined self-actualisation as: achieving the fullest of ones talents

Abraham Maslow

Devised the Critical Incident Technique, first qualitative research method

John Flanaghan

A research method that relies on a set of procedures to collect, analyse, and classify observations of human behaviour

The critical incident technique

Known for his contributions to phenomenology and humanistic psychology, developed usable qualitative methods.

Amedeo P. Giorgi

Was developed through the work of Potter & Wetherell

Discourse Analysis

Was advanced in osychology by Polkinghorne

Narrative Inquiry

Perspective: What is real? What sort of things exist? (to be)

Ontology

Perspective: The study of knowledge, e.g. how do we know what is real?

Epistemology

Perspective: Methods of investigation

Methodology

Perspective: Research methods

Methods

Epistemology:__- (Quantitative) Stable ‘laws’ that exist, exists independently of consciousness

Objectivism

Epistemology:__- Subjective meaning. Humans generate knowledge and meaning from their interactions with the world.

Interpretivism

Reality consists of what is available to the senses

Positivism

The extent to which we can generalise the findings of a study to the entire population

Generalisability

The extent to which we can transfer the findings in a specific context to another, similar context

Transferability

Quantitative research is __ epistemology

interpretivist