Methods of Enquiry in Psychology — Psychology STD 11 Humanities — Question
CBSE BoardEnglish MediumSTD 11 HumanitiesPsychologyMethods of Enquiry in Psychology3 Marks
Question
Describe the qualitative method of analysing data.
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Answer
Human emotions are very complex. They cannot be measured simply on the basis of question. For example, if a mother loses her child, we cannot measure her suffering.
Psychologists have developed various qualitative methods to analyse such data. One of them is Narrative Analysis.
When the researcher uses the method of participant observation or unstructured interview, the data are generally in a descriptive form- in participants own words, field notes taken by the researchers, photographs, interview responses noted by the researcher or taped/video-recorded, informal talks, etc. These type of data cannot be converted into scores or subjected to statistical analysis.
So, the researcher uses the technique of content analysis to find out thematic categories and build those categories taking examples from the data.
It is more descriptive in nature.
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