PSY 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Jane Goodall, Naturalistic Observation, Demand Characteristics
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Descriptive research: finding out about some variable. Correlational research: discovering relationships between variables. Describing some phenomenon, without answering questions of how and why. Methods of observing behavior: self report, psychological, behavioral. Naturalistic observation: observing subjects in natural environments, researcher jane goodall studies the behavior of wild chimpanzees in. Laboratory observation: their native habitat: observing subjects in artificially controlled environments. In this experiments preschoolers" reactions to the puppet are monitored. In-depth analysis of an individual, group, or event: the hmong sudden death syndrome, many hmong refugees who escaped the ravages of war in their homeland experienced great stress and guilt when they resettled in north america. Examining whether and how variables are related and change together. Correlation coefficient: strength: number, direction: sign. Third variable problem: some other variable accounts for relationships between two variables, third variables also called confounds. Obtaining measures of variables of interest in multiple waves over time. Causal variable would come first in time.
