PSYCO105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Naturalistic Observation, Developmental Psychology, Normal Distribution
11 Sep 2018
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Sometimes the aim of research is to describe the behavior of an individuals or set of of individuals without systematically investigating the relationships between speci c variables. Numbers: researchers surveying members of a given community to determine the percentage of people who su er from various psychological disorders. This is a descriptive study if the aim is to describe the prevalence of each disorder without correlating disorders with other characteristics of the community. Without numbers: animal behavior involving courtship behavior of ducks and trying to describe the sequence of movements involved in detail. Some descriptive studies are narrow in focusing on one seicifc speci c aspect of behavior and others are broad aiming to learn the habits of a particular group of people or speeches of animal. E. g - jane goodall"s research with wild chimpanzees in africa. Lab: more uniform controlled conditions than the eld.
