PSYC 4530 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Jeane Dixon, Behavioural Genetics, Abnormal Psychology
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0:06theories are meant to explain observations in a clear, understandable way. 0:13research attempts to disprove not prove these theories. 0:22may not fit with the theory statement, what may not fit with the hypotheses or expectations. 0:30in studying abnormal psychology and behavior, the research methods used most often are the. 0:37descriptive research techniques of the case study and correlations, and the experimental. 0:47the case study is useful in documenting how a new intervention works, what pattern of. 0:53symptoms may be involved with an illness, and what new hypotheses can be further studied. 0:59one person is studied and a lot of detail and description is uncovered with a case study. 1:06but causes of abnormal behavior cannot be assumed due to so many other factors that. Hypotheses and theory statements can only be disproven not proven. 1:21another type of descriptive research often done in the study of abnormal psychology involves. Correlations are statistical descriptions of how closely 2 variables are.
