Date post: | 31-Oct-2014 |
Category: |
Education |
Upload: | general-psychology |
View: | 13 times |
Download: | 2 times |
Method on Psychological Study
General Psychology
1Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Introspection
Observation/Descriptive Method
Life History
Survey
Experimental Method
Statistical Method
2Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Descriptive Methods
These provide a description of the behavior of the person or the animal being studied
3Tuesday, April 27, 2010
SensesSight Visual Eyes
Hearing Auditory Ear
Smell Olfactory Nose
Taste Gustatory Tongue
Touch Cutaneous Skin
4Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Naturalistic Observation
Observation of things as they naturally happen.
The observer simply record what they see and hear who selecting some events and ignoring others.
5Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Naturalistic ObservationPsychologists is interested in the answer to some specific questions.
It is made more precise and even more systematic with the use of the following:
Tests
Scales
Inventories
and Questionnaires
6Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Clinical Method
People with problems come or are taken to a clinical psychologists for help.
7Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Life History
8Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Survey
9Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Experimental Method
It is considered as the basis or foundation of all scientific research.
Some experiments require elaborate equipments and are conducted in the laboratory.
10Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Statistical Method
The data obtained from experiments are needed to be classified in order to give meaning to the data
and they need to be interpreted according to statistical procedures.
11Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Statistical Method
Measures of central tendency
Correlation
Reliability and Validity
12Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Measures of Central Tendency
Mean
Median
Mode
13Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Mean
Most often refers to as true “Arithmetic Mean”
Obtained by summing all elements of the data set and dividing by the number of element.
14Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Median
the “Middle Entry” in the list
it is the middle element where the data set is arranged in order of magnitude
MIDRANGE- is the arithmetic mean of the highest data elements
15Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Mode!
is the data element which occurs most frequently
16Tuesday, April 27, 2010
example1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 1
2 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 1
1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 2 2
1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 2 2
1 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 2
1 =
2 =
23
27
17Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Reliability
Refers essentially to repeatability
A test is said to be reliable if it yields similar results each time it is used.
18Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Validity
refers to the extent with which a test measures what it is supposed to measure.
19Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Solve:1. 2 , 1 , 4 , 3 , 6 , 5 , 8 , 7 , 1 0 , 9
2. 1 0 , 2 0 , 3 0 , 4 0 , 5 0
3. 5 0 , 3 0 , 8 0 , 9 0
4. 2 0 5 , 1 0 5 , 3 0 5 , 4 0 5 , 7 0 5 , 5 0 5
5. 1 0 , 0 0 0 4 0 , 0 0 0 7 0 , 0 0 0 8 0 , 0 0 0 3 0 , 0 0 0 6 0 , 0 0 0
20Tuesday, April 27, 2010