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Qualitative Designs And Data Collection MCQ

Trace communication left behind in the form of words or images and used for research is called content analysis.

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Correct Answer: True

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“A researcher may be interested in capturing college students’ perceptions of sexual assault. The researcher may think that males will have a different view of the topic compared to females.” ______ interviewing may be used in this study.

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Correct Answer: All of these may be used

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The only way to collect qualitative data is through ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviewing.

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Correct Answer: False

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The persons who provide researchers with required information needed for making connections with other group members are called informants.

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Correct Answer: True

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Qualitative researchers write down everything they observe and experience while out in the field in a field journal.

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Correct Answer: True

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As an exercise of cultural preservation, anthropologists would do which of the following?

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Correct Answer: Spend many months living with tribal communities, learning the language, and chronicling the customs of the people under threat

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Grounded theory involves the development of theory done at the beginning of a study during which abstract ideas are developed.

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Correct Answer: False

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Using mixed methods research allows the researcher to use and apply both qualitative and quantitative data analysis.

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Correct Answer: True

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The extended case method uses the researcher’s own field site to test the limitations of existing theory and see how the theory may be further refined and extended.

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Correct Answer: True

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All of the following are forms of qualitative data EXCEPT ______.

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Correct Answer: Probe

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Which of the following statements is false about qualitative research?

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Correct Answer: It typically employs various types of statistical analyses.

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Researchers who spend time living among a group of people learning their culture and customs are engaged in participant observation.

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Correct Answer: False

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Qualitative research like quantitative research uses mainly close-ended structured questions to probe a topic to get great detail.

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Correct Answer: False

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Dr. Baxter is studying the lifestyle of the Ashanti people in Kumasi Ghana. During his study, he engages in their festivals, celebrations, and other events. Dr. Baxter may best be described as a(n) ______ observer.

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Correct Answer: Participant

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Physical objects, images, sounds, moving images, videos, and texts are all types of qualitative data.

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Correct Answer: True

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_______ is a data collection technique where the researcher has no direct contact with any course research subjects during the of investigation, but instead looks at the traces that have been left behind by that population.

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Correct Answer: Physical objects

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The cultural artifacts such as (1)_______, (2) still images, (3) sounds, (4) moving images: videos, and (5) texts left behind by people that can be gathered and systematically examined in an unobtrusive manner

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Correct Answer: Physical objects

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______ is a rich and highly descriptive account of human behavior that puts the meaning behind the behavior into a broader cultural context

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Correct Answer: Thick Description

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The point toward the end of fieldwork when the researcher is no longer taking in any more new information is known as ?

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Correct Answer: Saturation

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________ is the sense of trust and connection that develops between the researcher and the research subject during the course of fieldwork or in-depth interviewing

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Correct Answer: Rapport

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Elicit more information from the respondent

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Correct Answer: Probe

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A mode of direct observation employed during fieldwork is known as ?

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Correct Answer: Participant-observation

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A study that combines elements of quantitative and qualitative research designs are known as Manifest Content .

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Correct Answer: True

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Content whose meaning is below the surface and requires some interpretation in context is known as Latent Content

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Correct Answer: True

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The written series of open-ended questions used to conduct an in-depth interview is known as______.

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Correct Answer: Interview schedule

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Group members who do not provide useful information to the researcher during the course of fieldwork are known as Informants.

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Correct Answer: False

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A data collection technique in which the qualitative researcher elicits information from a respondent through a series of open-ended questions are known as ?

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Correct Answer: In-depth Interview

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_______ is a term, named after a famous study, used to describe how participants in a research study may alter their behavior simply because they are part of the study

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Correct Answer: Hawthorne Effect

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Grounded Theory Method is an inductive approach to developing theory by systematically comparing and contrasting quantitative observations to look for emerging generalizable patterns.

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Correct Answer: False

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Gatekeeper is the person (or persons) in charge of the setting where fieldwork is being mismanaged

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Correct Answer: False

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Data collected while the researcher spends an extended period of time being a participant-observer with a group in its own natural setting is known as ?

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Correct Answer: Fieldwork

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A written and bound collection of notes where the researcher records observations and insights during fieldwork is known as ______ journal

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Correct Answer: Field

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________ is a more deductive approach to theory development in fieldwork that compares the theoretical insights gathered from other ethnographic case studies with one’s own fieldwork experiences.

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Correct Answer: Extended Case Method

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Ethnography is a piece of cultural writing produced from the results of fieldwork that provides a thick description of the beliefs,_______, and overall ethos of a group

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Correct Answer: Practices

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The systematic examination of the trace communications people have left behind is known as ?

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Correct Answer: Content Analysis

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_________is the researcher who is experiencing everything that participants are experiencing firsthand.

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Correct Answer: Complete Participant

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Who is simply observing without participating?

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Correct Answer: Complete Observer

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