PSYC 333 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Photoplethysmogram, Content Analysis, Observational Techniques
15 Mar 2017
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Sex research methods the outside world reproducible experimental verification of natural phenomena, rather than on personal experience. Positivism: philosophy underlying scientific inquiry that requires that knowledge is based on. Qualitative methods: explore variations by using open-ended questions. Quantitative methods: measure and organize naturally occurring variation. Ecological validity: how representative a behaviour in a research setting is of the behaviour in. Operationalize: define a concept so everyone interprets it the same way. Sexual psychophysiology: study of physiological sexual processes that underlie psychological. Theoretical bias: results from strict adherence to specific theoretical approach. Longitudinal study: once person for a long time. Demand characteristics: experimental cues that indicate type of behaviour that researcher. Delayed control-group design: groups receive same treatment at different points in time to. Introduction better understand course of treatment sexual response. Researches have difficulty finding participants willing to disclose information about their sexual experiences: problem gets more obvious when you want to study population that has difficulty with sex.
