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58 Cards in this Set
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Adaptation
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Changing to suit your environment
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Ambiguous Loss
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Unresolved loss due to not knowing if a loved one is dead or alive
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Anonymity
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Privacy to study participants. Even researchers don't know them
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Applied Research
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Practical research. Less concerned with theories
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Bias
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A strong opinion that can prevent an open mind
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Case-Study Method
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Series of individual interviews
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Clinical Research
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Study people who come to professionals.
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Concepts
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Abstract ideas used to express concrete ideas
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Conceptualization
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Defining concepts
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Confidentiality
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Researchers know people and what they say, keep it secret
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Conflict Theory
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Way of thinking, life is about competition
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Deductive Research
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Concepts become the variable
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Dependent Variable
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What does not change in a study
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Egocentric Fallacy
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Belief that our ethnicity, nation, or culture is better
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Equity
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Exchanges need to be fair
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Ethical Guidelines
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Guidelines to protect people giving information
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Experimental Research
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Isolate a single factor to study
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Fallacy
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Errors on reasoning
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Family Development Theory
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Studies changes in family's across time and environments
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Family Ecology Theory
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How family's are influenced and how they in turn influence environment
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Family Systems Theory
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Creates a bridge between sociology and Family therapy
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Feminist Perspective
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Focus on woman's rights and behaviors
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Gender
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Social aspect of being male or female
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Grounded Theory
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Made from observation of studies
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Homeostasis
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Family stability
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Hypotheses
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A prediction
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Independent Variable
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The part of the hypotheses thought to influence other part
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Inductive Research
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Not hypotheses driven, subject driven
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Interaction
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Action between people
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Intervening Variable
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Effects the independent or dependant variable
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Linked Lives
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Your life is influenced by others around you
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Macro Level Theories
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4 theories that emphasize family as social institution
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Micro Level Theories
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Emphasis what happens in family's, every day life
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Normative Age Graded Influences
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Biological or social influences correlated with age
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Normative History Graded Influences
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Historical facts that are common with generations
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Object Statement
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A value judgement
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Objectivity
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Suspend believes, biases, prejudice until we understand what is being said
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Observational Research
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Unobtrusive watching
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Operationalization
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Capturing data from study
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Opinion
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Based on experience or way of thinking
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Qualitative Research
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Research based on what people have said
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Quantitative Research
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Large quantities of information, survey
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Scientific Method
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Method created for gathering data
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Secondary Data Analysis
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Reusing published data
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Social Exchange Theory
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Measure relationships on a cost/benefit basis
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Social Institution
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Basic roles within society to meet certain needs
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Social Roles
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Established roles and behaviors say by society
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Stereotypes
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Overly generalized belief
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Structural Functionalism Theory
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Explains how society and family's work. How family's relate to society
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Subsystems
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Parts of society that are essential to make it work
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Survey Research
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Uses survey to get info
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Symbolic Interaction Theory
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Looks at how people interact with one another
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Theory
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Abstract ideas used to find concrete ideas
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Time Use Diary
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Record entire day
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Time Use Surveys
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Like time use diary
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Triangulation
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Using multiple methods in a study
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Value Judgement
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Like object statements. Saying something should be that way
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Vaiables
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Concepts that vary in a meaningful way
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