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Test Descriptive research: observation, surveys, and case studies
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1st QUESTION: What is the objective of descriptive research?
Establish a cause and effect relationship
Manipulate different variables in a controlled environment
Describe a situation or behavior as it occurs in reality
Building theories based on a single individual
2nd QUESTION: What is naturalistic observation?
An intensive and in-depth investigation into a single individual
A method in which a sample of people are asked about their behavior
A study that seeks to establish cause and effect relationships
An investigation in which the observer simply records a naturally occurring behavior without intervening
QUESTION 3: What is a case study?
In an intensive and in-depth investigation of a single individual or a very small group
In the observation of a large group in its natural habitat
In a survey conducted on a representative sample of the population
In the inability to control the factors of interest
QUESTION 4: What is one of the main disadvantages of survey research?
Which allows us to obtain a sample of what people do in their natural habitat
That respondents may not want to admit socially undesirable attitudes, altering their answers
That you can always generalize the results
That does not require representative sampling
QUESTION 5: What is the main disadvantage of naturalistic observation?
Which allows obtaining a sample of behavior in the natural habitat
That the results can always be generalized
The inability to control any of the factors of interest, since no variable is manipulated
Which is an intensive investigation on a single individual
QUESTION 6: Which important psychologists built their famous theories based on case studies?
The text does not mention any psychologist
BF Skinner and Ivan Pavlov
Charles Spearman and Howard Gardner
Sigmund Freud and Jean Piaget
QUESTION 7: What three main methods does descriptive research include?
Naturalistic observation, surveys and case studies
Experimental, correlational and descriptive research
Random sampling, manipulation of variables and generalization
The research of Freud, Piaget and Skinner
QUESTION 8: What is the main disadvantage of a case study?
That allows for intensive and in-depth research
What is the best method to establish cause and effect relationships?
That if the individuals examined are unique, we cannot make generalizations
Which always uses a representative sample of the population
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