Community Research Flashcards
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| 82616174 | Key goals of research in community psychology | 1 - yield insights not available in traditional laboratory-based research; 2 - inform action; 3 - attending to unheard voices; 4 - collaborate with and empower communities through research partnerships | |
| 82616175 | Philosophies of science / epistemology | positivist, constructivist, critical | |
| 82616176 | Positivism | 1 - knowledge is objective and truth is obtainable through empirical research; 2 - value-free neutrality is the goal; 3 - seeks generalizable laws and principles that apply widely; 4 - isolate variables and control extraneous individual and contextual variables; 5 - phenomena are measurable and can be reduced to numbers and understood through statistics; 6 - experimental research, quantitative research | |
| 82616177 | Constructivism | (contextualism, postmodernism) 1 - knowledge is relative and context-dependent; 2 - what is true in one context may not be true in another; 3 - embraces complexity and diversity; 4 - focuses on particular, local settings; 5 - seeks the meanings of phenomena; 6 - field research, qualitative | |
| 82616178 | Critical philosophy for community psychology research | 1 - knowledge is shaped by power relationships created and maintained by social instititutions and belief systems; 2 - social location of researcher is important; 3 - researchers must recognize and question their own position in social systems and how this effects research; 4 - activist orientation (research that can lead to challenging injustice); 5 - feminist, liberation, multicultural, psychologies often incorporate a critical philosophy of science; 6 - action research, participatory methods | |
| 82616179 | Four key issues of research and cultural context | 1 - assessment of cultural/racial/ethnic identity; 2 - assumptions of population homogeneity; 3 - assumptions of methodological equivalence; 4 - between-group and within-group designs | |
| 82616180 | Assessment of cultural/racial/ethnic idenity | 1 - broad vs specific categories; 2 - considering multiracial/multiethnic people; 3 - generational status; 4 - extent of identification; 5 - acculturation | |
| 82616181 | Assumptions of popular homogeneity | ethnic gloss and ethnocentrism | |
| 82616182 | Assumptions of methodological equivalence | linguistic equivalence and scale equivalence | |
| 82616183 | Between-group and within-group designs | 1 - between group designs are comparative (danger of difference as deficit); 2 - within-group designs are intragroup (more in-depth and more likely to emphasize strenghts) | |
| 82616184 | Etic approach | between-group; cross-cultural; compares culture on universal constructs | |
| 82616185 | Emic approach | within-group; intracultural; seeks understanding of a particular culture from the inside | |
| 82616186 | Four questions for conducting community psychology research | 1 - what values stances will we take? 2 - how shall we promote community participation and collaboration? 3 - how will we understand the cultural and social contexts of this research? 4 - at what ecological level of analysis will we conduct this research? | |
| 82620598 | Principles of community research partnerships | 1 - research should be stimulated by community needs; 2 - research should be an exchange of resources; 3 - research should be a tool for social action; 4 - evaluation of actions and outcomes should be imperative; 5 - research should yield products useful to the community | |
| 82620599 | Participatory action research | 1 - common approach in community psychology; 2 - collaborative relationship with the community; 3 - community participation happens at all levels (conceptualization, design, implementation, analysis); 4 - can happen through a community research panel (representatives involved in all decisions); 5 - both researchers and community have choice and control; 6 - makes the study more authentic to the needs and concerns of the community | |
| 82620600 | Psychopolitical validity | prilleltensky; 1 - extent to which the research considers and accounts for the impact of macrosystem influences and social forces on individuals and communities; 2 - extent to which the research promotes the capacity of the community to understand these influences and participate in social change | |
| 82620601 | Quantitative | measure phenomena and reduce into numeric representation | |
| 82620602 | Qualitative | intensive and in-depth study of the "lived experience" of individual and communities | |
| 82620603 | Types of research questions | descriptive, relational, predictive or longitudiinal, cause and effect, comparative | |
| 82620604 | Quantitative characteristics | Outsider knowledge, Large samples, Experimental/Basic, Laboratory, Measurement, Data are numbers, Standardized procedures, Hypothesis testing, Statistical analyses | |
| 82620605 | Qualitative characteristics | Insider knowledge, Smaller samples, Applied, Field, Interview/Observation, Data are words, Context-dependent procedures, Thick description, Thematic analyses | |
| 82620606 | Strategies of qualitative research | Participant-Observation, Case Study, Individual Interviews, Focus Group Interviews, Archival | |
| 82620607 | Strategies of quantitative research | Survey Research, Experimental, Correlational, Comparative, Epidemiological | |
| 82621094 | Descriptive research questions | 1 - types, characteristics, components; 2 - frequency, intensity, duration; 3 - experience | |
| 82621095 | Relational research questions | relationships between two or more variables | |
| 82621096 | Predictive or longitudinal research questions | a set of variables predicting an outcome; change over time | |
| 82621097 | Cause and effect research questions | the effect of a change or intervention | |
| 82621098 | Comparative research question | differences between groups |