RESEARCH METHODS THINKING CRITICALLY WITH PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD AND DESCRIPTION
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is based on naturalistic observation.
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may be unrepresentative of what is generally true.
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overestimates the importance of operational definitions.
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leads us to underestimate the causal relationships between events.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Case-study evidence may be unrepresentative for the entire population and thus might not reliably represent what is generally true in the population.
Detailed explanation-2: -Limitations of Case Studies Lacking scientific rigour and providing little basis for generalization of results to the wider population. Researchers’ own subjective feeling may influence the case study (researcher bias). Difficult to replicate. Time-consuming and expensive.
Detailed explanation-3: -One major limitation of case studies is that it is often difficult to generalize findings from the individual studied to other individuals. If you are interested in uncovering cause-and-effect relationships between two variables, you would use the correlational method.
Detailed explanation-4: -case study. In which research method do we study one exceptional individual in depth and try to carefully draw conclusions about others based on the evidence? case study.