This assignment comes with 2 parts, parts A and B. Failure to do both will result in a significant drop in the grade.
Part A
For each research question below, write a hypothesis, define the best type of research (descriptive, correlational, or experiment) to use, and explain how you would design the necessary study. Your explanation needs to be thorough enough to demonstrate understanding of the research methods discussed in this module’s readings. The first one has been done for you as an example.
Ex: Understanding the relationship between amount of sleep and grades on a 12th grade math test
· The more a person sleeps, the better his/her grade will be on a math test
· Correlational study
· I would get a random sample by choosing every 5th person to walk out of the math classroom after the test. I would hand those people a survey asking them how long they had slept the night before and their grade on the math test.
1. Determining if drinking alcohol causes hallucinations
2. Describing a day in the life of a person in a mental health hospital
3. Understanding what it’s like to be the mom of octuplets (eight babies born from a single pregnancy)
4. Determining if the amount of coffee consumed causes an affect on a person’s mood
5. Deciding if there is any relationship between hair color and number of dates per month
Part B
Approaches to Psychology
Instructions
Step 1: Review the following seven (7) approaches to psychology
Choose FIVE (5) of these approaches and give an example of how each approach relates to you. You will give one example for each approach.
Biological – focusing on the body, especially the brain and the nervous system
Behavioral – focusing on behavioral responses (doing or not doing things)
Psychodynamic – focusing on unconscious thought and conflict between biological drives, society’s demands, and childhood/family experiences
Humanistic – focusing on a person’s capacity for positive growth and freedom to choose one’s destiny
Cognitive – focusing on mental processes (i.e., thinking, memory, attention, problem solving)
Evolutionary – focusing on evolving ideas, such as adapting, reproduction, natural selection, and survival as a part of human behavior
Sociocultural – focusing on ways in which social and cultural environments influence behavior
