PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - The Control Group, Naturalistic Observation, Participant Observation

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Psychology lecture # 2 research methods: survey methods. Consists of questions that are used to determine attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors. Surveys are mostly done on paper and pen or online rarely by telephone. There is no particular method that is superior than the other. Major advantage handing out surveys to people: Very efficient (quick and easy, and you get a variety of people) Not bias because it covers a variety of people. You have to answer to the options provided by the researcher. Open ended questions are rare because you have a lot of options and it takes away the efficiency of the research (if people are writing paragraphs it would be hard for the researches to compile data) Researches design surveys on a rating scale (most of the time) You need a large n (number of participants to take part in a survey) Researchers tend to do a pilot study (mini trial of the study)