PSYB01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Paul Ekman, Naturalistic Observation, Autonomic Nervous System
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The research methods and design you choose depend greatly on the questions asked and answers you hope to discover. Two very broad research approaches used by researchers: experimental and non-experimental designs. You cannot conclude a causal relationship using this type of design. Animals, in which darwin argues that all mammals communicate their emotions through facial expressions: he traveled to places like japan, brazil, and argentina, carrying photographs of men and women posing various distinctive faces. Everywhere he went, people agreed on what those expressions meant: he thought maybe people living in those developing countries knew because of movies and tv shows they watched. Objective of research is to provide a scientific understanding of the topic of investigation. We first describe the phenomenon that we intend to study. Conceptual definition provides the meaning, often rather broad in scope, of an abstract term, such as intelligence, anxiety, or emotion. Operational definition indicates how a concept is coded, measured, or quantified.
