Psychology, Books a la Carte Plus NEW MyPsychLab with eText -- Access Card Package (4th Edition)
Psychology, Books a la Carte Plus NEW MyPsychLab with eText -- Access Card Package (4th Edition)
4th Edition
ISBN: 9780205977376
Author: Saundra K. Ciccarelli, J. Noland White
Publisher: PEARSON
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Case study is a type of descriptive method that is used to describe behavior. In case study an individual is studied to withdraw tremendous amount of information. Researchers try their best to learn and get everything about a particular individual. For example, psychologist Sigmund Freud proposed the theory of psychoanalysis based on the case studies of his patients. Case study provides the researchers a vast amount of detail.

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