Key Terms

• conflict of interest validity, 7
• critical, 8
• disciplined inquiry, 4
• ecological validity, 7
• emic perspective, 12
• empirical information, 4
• epistemological, 7
• etic perspective, 12
• grounded theory, 12
• hypothesis, 5
• inductive process, 12
• interpretivist, 8
• methodology, 10
• methods, 10
• mixed-methods, 10
• ontological, 7
• paradigms, 7
• population validity, 7
• positionality, 12
• positivism, 7
• qualitative research, 8
• quantitative research, 4
• research-based knowledge, 4
• scientific method, 5
• sources of knowledge, 4
• true experiments, 5