qualitative

Examples of qualitative in the following topics:

• Research Methods for Evaluating Treatment Efficacy

  • When assessing the effectiveness of therapy, researchers often rely on mixed-method designs, which means using both quantitative and qualitative designs.
  • Unfortunately, a number of theoretical models used in therapy, such as interviews and observations, lack quantitative data to support their effectiveness and rely solely on qualitative data.
  • Ideally, therapies should use mixed methods to provide both quantitative and qualitative data.
  • Qualitative methods may involve conducting, transcribing, and coding interviews; transcribing and/or coding therapy sessions; analyzing single counseling sessions or counseling cases; or using observations made and reported by the therapist.
  • Qualitative data can provide subjective information that cannot be measured or effectively captured by quantitative methods.

• Surveys and Interviews

  • Interviews are a type of qualitative data in which the researcher asks questions to elicit facts or statements from the interviewee.
  • Surveys may measure either qualitative or quantitative data.
  • Qualitative data are the result of categorizing or describing attributes of a population such as hair color, blood type, or ethnic group.
  • Qualitative data are usually described by words or letters.

• Evaluating the Psychodynamic Approach to Personality

  • He did an entirely qualitative study of the human mind, resulting in theories that were not falsifiable, but rather, open for interpretation.
  • Scientific research using data-based studies, meta-analysis, and child psychology continue to bring many of Freud's qualitative assumptions into question.

• Observation

  • Unlike correlational and experimental research which use quantitative data, observational studies tend to use qualitative data.
  • While observational studies can generate rich qualitative data, they do not produce quantitative data, and thus mathematical analysis is limited.

• A History of Theories of Consciousness

  • They posit that consciousness changes over time, in quality and in degree: an infant's consciousness is qualitatively different than a toddler's, a teenager's, or an adult's.

• Case Studies

  • Case studies also tend to use qualitative data, such as interviews, but may occasionally use quantitative data as well, like questionnaires.

• Positive Psychology

  • Beyond simply the brain and nervous system, humanistic psychology also takes individual subjective experience into account, and as such it  seeks to understand human beings and their behavior through qualitative research.

• Repressed Memories

  • In this way, traumatic experiences appear to be qualitatively different from those of non-traumatic events, and, as a result, they are more difficult to remember accurately.