PSY 113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Naturalistic Observation, External Validity, Intellectual Disability

• School: URI
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 113
• Professor: Susan Boatright- Horowitz

Document Summary

Chimpanzees of gombe, : an investigation of courtship behavior in humans. In the wild, nature, college campus, restaurants, bars, airports * natural habitat: the case of genie - raised in social isolation. Is there a critical period for learning language? c: case studies; n=1 or a few. The problems with case studies: low internal validity: case studies tend to be retrospective. There are uncontrolled variables. ( genie may have been mentally retarded already and she experienced forms of abuse other than language deprivation): low external validity: the subject number is equal to one (n=1) and.