PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Random Assignment, John Money, Experiment
27 Nov 2013
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Often use case studies as a starting point, mostly used 100 years ago when they were first starting off. What they do is give you intense info about 1-3 different people who you study very intensively (freud did this often; too see how they develop, what their function is, whether treatments cure them or not etc. ) Overall in depth study and info on an individual over a period of time. Have to be careful when doing a case study because it must be ethical and worth doing. Gives you tons of info about your subject but problems occur. For example, we study one person, and you want to say that what you find out about this one person applies to the general population, but this doesn"t occur. It"s just a particular person, but with a study of more subjects, you can develop some kind of consensus and generalized statements about a population. Studying one person is useful, but not efficient.
