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Qualitative Research Glossary

Do you know the difference between sugging and frugging? Puzzled by words like semiotics, snowballing and psychographics? Want to know what a qualitative researcher means by mapping or mental accounting? This glossary, compiled by the AQR, defines and explains many of the words and terms used in the qualitative research industry.

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A

Availability bias

Attitude

Anonymity

Animatic

Anchoring

Analysis Software

Analysis and Interpretation

Advertising research

Ad Hoc Research

Account Planning

Accompanied Shopping

B

Bubble drawing

Brief

Bricolage

Brand research

Brand positioning

Brainstorming

Bias

Behaviourism

Behavioural Economics

Back checking

B2C Research

B2B Research

C

Customer

Cultural analysis

Cross-cultural research

Creative group

Creative development research

Consumer culture

Consumer connection programme

Consultation

Consultancy

Conflict interviews

Confirmation bias

Confidentiality

D

Discussion guide

Discounting the future

Diary

Desk research

Depth Interview

Demographics

Delphi groups

Deliberative research

Debrief

Database recruitment

Data Protection

Data

E

Extended group

Execution

Evaluation

Ethnography

Ethics

F

Framing

Focus group

Findings

Fieldwork

Field notes

Field

G

Group effects

Group dynamics

Group discussion

H

Humanistic psychology

Heuristics

Head of household

Hawthorne effect

I

Iterative approach

ISO 20252

Interviewing

International research

Interim debrief

Interactive research

Insight

Informed eclecticism

Informed consent

Incentive

Implicit response

J

Johari window

K

Kelly Grid

L

Low involvement processing

Lifestage

Leading question

Laddering

M

Mystery shopping

Multi-Modal Approach

Motivation Research

Mood board

Moderator

Mock-up

Mini-group discussion

Mental accounting

Marketing

Market Research Online Communities

Market research agency

Market research

N

Non-verbal communication

Non-directive interviewing

New Product Development

Neuroscience

Neuroesthetics

Neuro-psychology

Neuro-Linguistic Programming

Networking

Narrative tape

O

Order effect

Online qualitative research

Online groups

Online Bulletin Board

Observation

Objectivity

Objectives

P

Psychological defence mechanisms

Psychographics

Psycho-drawing

Proposition

Proposal

Projective and enabling techniques

Projection

Project

Professional standards

Professional respondent

Probing

Priming

Q

Quota

Quantitative market research

Qualitative market research

R

Role play

Respondent Agency

Respondent

Researcher

Research design

Reportage

Report

Reliability

Recruitment Questionnaire

Recruitment

Recording

Reconvened group

S

System 1 and 2

Synesthetic Approach

Synectics

Synaptic Network

Survey

Sugging and frugging

Sub sample

Strategic development research

Storyboard

Stimulus material

Stakeholder

Staff research

T

Typology

Triad

Transcript

Transactional Analysis

Topline debrief

Thematic Apperception Test

Target

Tactical research

U

User experience

V

Viewing Facility

Video Streaming

Validity

W

Workshop

Word association

Wearables

Conclusions and recommendations

Concept test

Concept board

Conative model

Commitment bias

Collage technique

Cognitive model

Cognitive dissonance

Cognitive biases

Code of Conduct

Co-creation

Client

Chunking

Mapping

Management Summary

Pre-testing

Pre-tasking and disruptive techniques

Pre-placement

Positivism

Positioning

Planning cycle

Pilot study

Personification

Perceptual constancy

Perceptual abstraction

Pen portrait

Paradox Of Choice

Panel

Paired depth interview

Reciprocity bias

Rationalisation

Social Listening

Social class

Snowballing

Signalling

Service Design

Sensitivity panel

Semiotics

Self-Curated Peer Sessions

Scaffolding

Sample