PSY-1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Longitudinal Study, Dependent And Independent Variables, Confounding
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Case studies: an in-depth analysis of the behavior of one person or a small. Appropriate to use when large number of participants are unavailable number of people. and unique characteristics. Naturalistic observances: an in-depth study of a phenomenon in its natural. Appropriate to use when observing a large group of participants. Surveys: a descriptive method in which participants are asked the same setting. questions. Appropriate to use when you want to gain useful information quickly with little expenses. Also appropriate when you want to use a sample or subset of a. Correlation is a measure of the direction and strength of the relationship between two variables. Variable: a factor that has a range of values. Positive correlation, negative correlation, and zero correlation. A research method that tests hypotheses and allows researches to make. Great deal of control over variables. conclusions about causality. Observed result of manipulation = dependent variable.
