Reference no: EM133453932

Questions

1. Which of the following would be a GOOD research question for this study?

(Consider how research questions should be developed.)

A. Do patients feel safe in therapy?

B. What are the experiences and expectations of patients in psychotherapy with respect to feelings of safety?

C. How does client-therapist congruence affect feelings of safety in therapy?

2. Which of the following would be an appropriate hypothesis for this study?

A. Patients will feel safe in therapy.

B. Client-therapist congruence will be positively related to feelings of safety in therapy.

C. None; this qualitative work is not hypothesis-driven (deductive) but is potentially hypothesis-generating (inductive).

3. What is the appropriate research design (i.e., how are you going to "get at" this question)?

A. Experimental

B. Correlational

C. Descriptive

4. How will you evaluate the variables in your question (i.e., what are the appropriate measures)?

A. Collect biological measures such as using functional magnetic resonance imaging.

B. Use in-person, semi-structured interviews with open-ended questions to allow participants to share in detail about their experiences.

C. Ask patients to fill out surveys that use Likert and other scales.

5. Who are you going to study, and how are you going to get them into the study (i.e., how will you select the participants and sampling approach)?

A. Get a very large sample of participants that are selected randomly from a local clinic.

B. Go to the clinic at times that you can be there easily and select whichever participants you can find (as many as you are ethically permitted to use).

C. Purposively sample a small number of participants from a local clinic.

6. How will you know whether your prediction was correct (i.e., how will you form a conclusion)?

A. No prediction was made initially, but the conclusion would be based on a coded or thematic assessment of the interviews to provide insights into patients' experiences in terms of safety.

B. If therapist-patient congruence was positively related to feelings of safety, the prediction will have been correct.

C. If patients reported feeling safe, the prediction will have been correct.

7. What type of claim could be supported by your study?

A. causal

B. frequency

C. association