An educational psychologist is investigating the emotional experiences of children starting primary school. They collect written diary entries from fifty children, establish a coding frame with pre-defined categories such as 'expression of fear' and 'expression of excitement', and record the frequency of occurrences of each category to perform statistical analyses.
What method of data analysis is the psychologist using?
Discourse analysis
Thematic analysis
Content analysis
Meta-analysis
644 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Research methods and techniques. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.