PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Xyy Syndrome, Animal Testing, Demand Characteristics
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Ahistorical research studies behavior at one particular point in time. Historical research is concerned with the origins and future courses of behavior: the longitudinal design . Involves assessing the same group of people over an extended period of time. Any changes seen are from direct development. It requires commitment in part from the participants. Advantages to this approach: similarities and differences in behavior across development are seen directly, track performance of individuals over time, identify common patterns and individual differences, and can examine relations between early and late behaviors. Involves assessing differently aged groups of people at the same time of testing. Advantages to this approach: less time-consuming, and less expensive than longitudinal designs, and not as concerned with practice effects and selective drop-out; in turn its extremely efficient at these. This method essentially integrates features of longitudinal and cross-sectional design together.
