PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Eating Disorder, Informed Consent, Operationalization
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Research methods in the study of abnormal behaviour. If it cannot be reproduced, then scientist become wary of the legitimacy of the original observation. It is ideal for studying individualistic context: but it is unable to provide satisfactory evidence concerning cause-effect relationships. Epidemiological research: epidemiology: study of the frequency and distribution of a disorder in a population, can be used to give a general picture of a disorder. The correlational method: correlational method establishes whether there is a relationship between or among two or more variables, and it is often employed in epidemiological research, variables being studies are measured as they exist in nature. It then addresses a question, are variable x and variable y associated in some way so that they vary together (co-relate) Age, sex, social class, body build (naturally occurring: problem: it does not allow determination of cause-effect relationships (which caused which?)
