multi-method approach

Question 1

are most studies multi-method ? What is it?

Answer 1

Most studies use a multi-method approach - a combination of all sorts of different techniques and methods to investigate target behaviour

Question 2

How was Milgram, 1963 multi-method?

Answer 2

He conducted a controlled observation in a lab., but then he interviewed participants afterwards

Question 3

Schaffer and Emerson conducted a study of infant attachment - what approaches were used? Mothers were observed at their own homes at regular intervals over one year and were interviewed and mothers were asked to record infants responses (a DV) to seven everyday situations (an IV)

Answer 3

• This was a naturalistic observation
• it was longitudinal
• It involved interviews for qualitative data
• with an experimental element

Question 4

Sometimes a study does not fit a category - it is not a case study , nor an observation, it does not use a questionnaire -so what do we call it?

Answer 4

an investigation