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Question 1

What is role of a case study?

Answer 1

Provides a detailed picture of an individual based on interviews, observations, testing, and other information

Question 2

What are the advantages and disadvatages of a case study?

Answer 2

advantages- useful when the condition being studied is rare.
Disadvantages- May provide biased results if indiviuals do not represent their groups
- Time and cost intesive

Question 3

Naturalistic observation

Answer 3

Involved a systemic and unobtrusive observation of an individual (or group) in an everyday setting

Question 4

What are the advantages and disadvantages of naturalistic observation

Answer 4

Advantages- Captures “real-world” behavior

Disadvatanges- May be difficult to unobtrusively observe the behavior of interest.

Behavior of interest also may be rare

Time and cost intensive

Question 5

Involves a systemic observation o an individual (or group) in setting designed to elicit the behavior of interest

Answer 5

Laboratory observation

Question 6

Uses a set of questions that is intended to elicit responses from a sampe of individuals, usually pertaining to attitudes, values, or behaviors

Answer 6

Questionnaire or survey

Question 7

Advantages of questionnaire or survey

Answer 7

Large amounts of data can be collected with relative ease
- Sampling ensures that the data are representative of the population

Question 8

Disadvantages-Questionnaire or survey

Answer 8

-Indivduals may misrepresent themselves, either intentionally or due to bias

• Questions may be misleading or have multiple interpretations

Question 9

Uses a set of questions or problems designed to assess an individuals abilities or traits

Answer 9

Psychological testing

Question 10

Advantages of and disadvatanges of psychological testing

Answer 10

Advantages (2)- Important dimensions of human behavior can be measured.
- Intelligence and personality have an important impact on development

Disadvantages- tests must be accurate
Not all important variables are subject to testing

Question 11

Correlation is the

Answer 11

Measurement of two variables and two statistical calculation that described the relationship of the variable to each other

Question 12

Advantages and disadvantages of correlation

Answer 12

Ad- Can identify important relationships among variables of interest
Disadvantages- cannot be used to infer the cause and effect

Question 13

Experimenter manipulates independent vairable under study, with results measured on dependent variable

Answer 13

Experiment

Question 14

Experiment advantages and disadvantages

Answer 14

Ad- can be used to explore cause and effect relationship
- Provides the esperimenter with good control over experimental conditions

Disadvantages- may be impossible to manipulate the indepentdet variable of interest. Quasi experiments can sometimes be used
- May be ethical limitation on what researc questions can be investigated