Psychology research Methods

Case Study

• Study of one individual in great detail.

• Observation of human or animal behavior in its natural setting.

• An inexpensive and quick method of gaining information about people’s opinions, attitudes, and perceptions.

• Experiment using a variety of different hypotheses.

Survey

• An inexpensive and quick method of gaining information about people’s opinions, attitudes, and perceptions.

• Study of one individual in great detail.

• Observation of human or animal behavior in its natural setting.

• Experiment using a variety of different hypotheses.

An experiment where neither the participants nor the experimenter know who has received the treatment, until the experiment has concluded, is known as what?

• Random Experiment
• Single-blind Experiment
• Stratified Experiment
• Double-blind Experiment

The experimental factor that is manipulated; the variable whose effect is being studied.

• Experimental condition
• Control condition
• Independent variable
• Dependent variable

A specific, testable prediction, narrower than a theory

• Theory
• Hypothesis
• Critical thinking
• Psychological reasoning

Group that does receive the treatment

• Experimental group
• Control group

Group that does not receive the treatment

• Experimental group
• Control group

____________Studies is research gathering info from different age groups at the same time

• Longitudinal
• Experiment
• Cross Sectional
• Correlation

Professor Ober carefully monitors and records the behaviors of children on school playgrounds to track the development of their physical skills. Professor Ober is engaged in:

• experimentation. 
• replication. 
• survey research.
• naturalistic observation. 

Researchers who study single individuals in depth in order to uncover general principles of thinking and behavior are using which research method?

• experimentation 
• correlational study
• naturalistic observation 
• case study