{"id":905,"date":"2016-10-11T05:51:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T05:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/101psych.com\/?p=905"},"modified":"2016-10-11T05:51:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T05:51:17","slug":"introduction-to-qualitative-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibpsych\/2016\/10\/11\/introduction-to-qualitative-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to Qualitative Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

Research in psychology can be generally divided in to two major types:<\/p>\n

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  1. Quantitative<\/li>\n
  2. Qualitative<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    To be it simply, quantiative research deals in\u00a0investigating human behaviour by looking at numbers and statistics. Experiments, correlational studies, and meta-analyses are some of the quantitative methods used in Psychology. Quantitative research often tries to investigate cause and effects, or correlations between factors and behaviour.<\/p>\n

    Qualitative research, on the other hand, is based on the assumption\u00a0that human behaviour is far more complex than to be reduced to numbers. It is not as concerned with\u00a0explaining\u00a0<\/em>human behaviour but more interested describing it. It recognises that there is still value in understanding people’s subjective experiences of particular phenomena.<\/p>\n

    There are three major qualitative methods that we’ll look at:<\/p>\n