Psychology: Research Methods in Cognitive Level of Analysis

Aside from statistical data, the authors shared little to no analysis of the attrition in their study.

Case studies, surveys, and naturalistic observations are a few research methods used by psychologists to facilitate the understanding of behavior. Each method has its own advantages and disadvantages that are used in particular research scenarios. Techniques like observation or interactions between the researcher and the subject(s) such as extensive interviews to restrained experiments are what some research methods heavily rely on to be validated.

1.What two factors did you investigate in your procedure, and why did you choose to compare these two factors?

·  How were measures of variation used in the study? What conclusions can you draw based on the variation?

Over the years many people have made studies of what they believe were the important factors

One criticism of this research is that it is correlational. Therefore, we cannot infer a causal

Additionally, as far as the study’s designers making a reference back to the purpose of the research (Pyrczak, 2008), this evaluator has ascertained they have not (Lin et al., 2004); however, it should be mentioned that in studies that have only a solitary hypothesis, such a requirement may not be applicable. With that being the case,

10. Was the sample for this study adequately described? Provide a rationale for your answer.

- The use of a scientific control groups is important because it can segregate the effect of

They focused on these factors because they found that these were the most common studied but the findings are the most contradictory.

The results obtained in the three tests described above are consistent with the outcome of

In past experiments the researcher would have been required to scan images of the entire brain for each comparison,

noted there has been little effort to evaluate the effectiveness of the program, but failed to give

One known research method is the Scientific Method which is a uniform way of creating observations, assembly data, establishing concepts, testing predictions, and understanding outcomes. These observations are made in order to observe and define behaviors. The first step to take in using a scientific method is to develop an issue or question. Next step is to perform a research and observation on the issue or question that was developed. Then a hypothesis needs to be formulated after these steps have been made.

Research shows that the latter three methods mentioned have significant flaws and therefore, are not recommended for use by the organisation, this is because the data collected would mainly be descriptive, which would mean analysis and interpretation of the results would be challenging and time-consuming. These techniques could not be implemented on the large scale that the organisation desires, as they do not have the required resources to facilitate it. An experiment would also be unsuitable for the organisation as it would be too difficult to