History of 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

• Study of one individual in great detail

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

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

• Experiment using a variety of different hypothesis

An experiment where neither the participants nor the experimenter know who has received the treatment, until the experiment has concluded...

• Random experiment

• single-blind experiment

• stratified experiment

• double-blind experiment

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

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

• experimentation

• survey research

• replication

• 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

• naturalistic observation

• correlational study

• case study

Which research design is focused on gathering information about self-reported perceptions or attitudes through questionnaires?

• survey method

• correlational study

• naturalistic observation

• case study