PSYB10H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: External Validity, Frontal Lobe, Dependent And Independent Variables
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Chapter 5: research methods in the study of abnormal. Behaviour: case study, epidemiological research, correlational method, experiment. Case study (generate hypothesis: historical and biographical information on a single individual, providing detailed description, case study as evidence, generating hypotheses. John harlow and executive disorder, 1848: in place of the diligent, dependable worker stood a foulmouthed and ill-mannered liar given to extravagant schemes that were never followed through. Epidemiological research (study of the frequency & distribution in the population, important = base rates (inform the probability); how common a disorder is: prevalence (proportion of a population that has the disorder at a certain/period in time. The experiment: basic features you"re a healthy individual, experimental hypothesis (size of the frontal lobe depends if, independent variable (experimenter has control, dependent variable (size of the frontal lobe, experimental effect. The experiment validity: having a control group; does not receive the experiment (internal, double-blind procedure (to avoid bias/ ex.
