Chapter 6 Flashcards
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Phineas Gage Study
Sparked research for parts of brain and their functions
Case of Stephen D
Showed how ordinary experiences are adaptive
Peter Tripp
Examined sleeping patterns
Single variable research
Studies designed to describe some specific property of a large group of people
Census
Body of data collected from every member of a population of interest
Survey
Body of data collected from subset of people in a population
Population survey
Uses random sampling to identify a sample of the population that is of interest
Epidemiological Research
Study of the causes of disease
Correlational Methods
Gathering a set of observations and then testing for associations between different variables
Person confounds
People who are high or low on an IV also happen to be high or low on a contextual or situational variable that is associated with the DV
Environmental Confounds
People who are high or low on an IV also happen to be high or low on contextual or situational variable that is associate with DV
Operational confound
A measure designed to assess a specific construct inadvertently measures something else as well
Fixing operational confounds
Remove confound
Measure variable
Rerun study
Reverse causality
When two variables are related, but it is not possible to tell which variable is the cause of the other
Archival research
Research in which investigators examine naturally existing public records to test a theory or hypothesis
Observational Research
Research in which investigators record the behavior of people in their natural environments without influencing people’s behaviors
Case studies
Systematic analysis of the experiences of a particular person or group of people
