PS285 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Consciousness Raising, Deductive Reasoning, Basic Belief
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Chapter 5: a-z of research methods and issues and issues in health psychology. Action research: is about the process of change and what stimulates it. Action research is particularly suited to organizational and consultancy work when a system or services requires improvements (par- participant action research: takes time, resources, creativity and courage. Between group designs: allocates matched groups of people to different treatments. Case studies: is used to describe a detailed descriptive account of an individual, group or collective: challenges: establishing boundaries of the case, types: Theoretical: reviews a process that has already been identified. Confidence interval: is the interval around the mean of a sample that one can state with a known probability contains the mean of the population. Cross-over or within-participant designs: is used when the same people provide measures of a dependant variable at more than one time and differences between the measures at the different times are recorded.
