PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Nomothetic, Descriptive Statistics, General Idea

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1001
• Professor: Ayca Guler- Edwards

Document Summary

We are all alike in that we can feel stress and satisfaction . Research in psychology: three levels of analysis (individuals can be analyzed at three levels): Human nature (we are like all others) Group differences (we are like some others) Individual uniqueness (we are like no others) Research in psychology: there is a debate within psychology regarding whether we should conduct nomothetic or. Idiographic research ( the description of one ) typically focuses on a single subject, trying to observe general principles that are manifest in a single life over time (i. e. case studies). Focus in a very simple and single subject, learn very deep details, develop a deep understand and trying to get a general idea. Very use for theory generation, maybe people work like this. But it is lack of generalizability: nomothetic research typically involves statistical comparisons of individuals or groups, requiring samples of subjects on which to conduct research.