PSYCH 2AA3 Lecture Notes - Field Experiment, Quasi, John Money
9 Sep 2013
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John money thought that biological sex was not important and the only thing that mattered was the way you were raised. Child was born a male but there was an accident and he was raised as a girl; money watched over the child. Child reaches puberty and starts to realize that something isn"t right and that he is actually a boy. Observational research: observing children leads to many interesting ideas, not getting involved just watching what children are doing. Correlational research: looking at whether one variable goes with another variable or other variables, survey study. Reading ability is not good in young children. Structured interview at a level that is appropriate for children. Parent, teacher, and peer reports: the problem of retrospective reports: problem of trying to look into people"s childhoods is that their memory gets vague, not the best choice. Caveat: causation: can"t make a causal statement, correlation does not imply causation.
