Content analysis

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What is the difference between behavioural and content analysis?
Content analasys studies pbehaviour indirectly, through books, tv shows, films and photographs ranther than direct analsis of people themesleves.
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What kind of sampling techniques might a reasercher use if analysing a book?
time sampling, choosing how many pages of the book they will anylise (every 5th one etc)
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What kind of sampling techniques might a reasercher use comparing the content between books?
selcting books randomly or use a stratified sampling technique with differnt genres (biography, Romance novel etc...)
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What kind of sampling techniques might a reasercher use when analysing TV ads?
how long bewtween sampling behaviours? (15 seconds, 30 second etc...)
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How might a reassercher code the data they are collecting?
They might devise a table of behvoral catogreis (such as Manstead and McCulloch) and then record the instences of that behaviour
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What are the two methods in representing data?
Quantitative (counting the instances of each occurance) or Qualitative (describing examples of each occurance)
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E1 Strength: why do content analasies have high ecological validity?
They are based on activities that people actually do (read books, watch TV) and are not as contrived as lab experiments
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E1 strength: What makes content analasys more reliable?
When sorucres are retained, they may be duplicated making it easier for multiple observation?
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