Research Methods Flashcards
Back in the day, how psychology answered questions about how the mind worked was based on the process of_____ which is ___…
Rationalism = the belief that reason and logic is how we acquire knowledge, not experience
Artiste used rationalism to reason that human thoughts, perceptions, and emotions were products of the_____ rather than the_____.
The heart rather than the brain, since the heart is positioned in the center of our bodies
What are the steps of the scientific method
Identify the problem, gather information, generate a hypothesis, design and conduct experiments, analyze the data and formulate conclusions, restart the process
What are descriptive methods
Capturing, recording, or describing a group, identifying “what is” rather than “why it is “
What are the 4 popular methods to describe groups
Naturalistic observation, participant observation, case studies, and surveys
What is naturalistic observation
Observing behavior as it happens without manipulating anything
What are field experiments
When a researcher manipulates and controls the conditions of the behavior under observation
What does the word “ Hawthorne” refer to
A factory called Hawthorne works electric company, where researchers observed whether employees worked better in dark lighting or bright lighting
What are two flaws in naturalistic observation
Researchers lack control over the environment, and researchers perspectives and bias might influence interpretations
What is participant observation
A research method where a researcher becomes part of the group under investigation, it provides greater access to the dally life and activities of group members
What are two flaws/disadvantages about participant observation
An experimenters presence can influence the group members behavior and experimenters can also be subject to bias
David rosenhan tested the notion that psychiatrists were incapable of making accurate distinctions between sanity and insanity, describe his participant study
Eight healthy researchers attended 12 hospitals, all participants used fake identities and reported hearing voices.
That simple fact were all it took to admit all of the researchers
11/12 were diagnosed with schizophrenia and the remaining one was diagnosed with manic-depressive psychosis
The participants behaved normally once inside an were never admitted out
What is a case study?
An in- depth analysis of a unique circumstance or individual
Where are case studies popular
In medicine, where clinicians observe an unusual patient and attempt to investigate the patients condition
Explain the h.m case study
Henry molaison experienced seizures ever since he was young due to falling off of his bike and hitting his head. His neurosurgeon thought it would be smart to preform ablation on his temporal lobes, removing the hippocampus. The removal of his hippocampus stopped the seizures but resulted in him not being able to make new memories
