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Answer the following questions in 25 to 50 words each, covering material from Ch. 6 and 7 of Methods in Behavioral Research:

1. What is the difference between a qualitative method of behavioral research and a quantitative method of behavioral research?

2. What is a case study? When are case studies most useful?

3. What are different methods for administering surveys? When would you use each method?

4. Why is the wording of questions important in survey research? What types of questions should be avoided? Why?

5. What is interview bias? When can this occur?

6. A researcher attends an art reception in a major metropolitan city. She decides to approach people over the age of 50 and ask them to fill out a brief survey about purchasing artwork. Is this a probability or a nonprobability sampling technique? What type of sampling procedure-simple random, stratified random, cluster, haphazard, purposive, or quota-is this?

Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:

• Imagine you are a researcher interested in identifying the components of giftedness in preteen children. What quantitative methods might you use to help you better understand the experience of giftedness? What qualitative methods might you use? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each approach?

Respond to classmates responds substantive responses needed

• I would say that the quantitative method identified as a research approach that focuses on specific behaviors of the participant group, and these behaviors can be. The best way to explain this as a preteen children ad giftedness, quantitative observation is is a statistical analysis this is a large sample taken for the study, this includes the percentages of gifted preteens that is varies by age. Qualitative method for preteen giftedness is based on is better used in gathering the information in groups of 8 to 10 preteens, using more of an interview setting. Qualitative is expressed in a nonnumerical terms using language and images. Quantitative and Qualitative would not be best used in this study because quantative would examine the data of the gifted preteens and Qualitative would be able to conceptualize in nonnumerical terms. Keep in mind the distinction between quantitative and qualitative approaches to describing behavior are valuable and provide us with different ways of understanding behavior. Observing the giftedness of preteens is valuable using both methods for the study.

• Cozy, P.C. and Bates, S.C. (2015). Methods in Behavioral Research (12th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw Hill

• I would say that qualitative is a great way to study the level of giftedness with children and how they interact with peers, etc. We would be able to observe them in their natural settings, such as school. It may be possible to survey parents on their behaviors at home and compare the two as well. The quantitative could be focusing on their social patterns and behaviors, measuring the frequency or level of certain behaviors among the gifted population and comparing them. This could be male vs female, specific age categories, etc. The advantages of a qualitative method is that we could see the settings, and set a prediction or behaviors or triggers for specific types of behavior and the way the gifted child acts and reacts in those settings. While we could measure the behaviors and frequencies, a disadvantage might be that the triggers may not always be the same and could be at random and might skew the results. I am looking at the behavior side of gifted children versus their skills. I find behavior fascinating as well as motivations, etc.