Question

1. What is an advantage and a disadvantage of the experimental approach to research (vs. descriptive/correlational)?

2. Clearly, major injury to the brain is not something anyone wants to sustain. However, suppose you were to sustain such an injury; in which half of the brain would you prefer the injury to occur? Why?

3. My daughter is a pretty awesome 15-month-old, but occasionally she is aggressive with other kids at daycare: she’ll go for a pretty aggressive bite if Xavi or Maddie take a toy she’s playing with. Using principles from behavioral psychology, explain how you might try to change this behavior.

4. How might a robot navigate the world using bottom-up perceptual principles? How might a robot navigate the world using top-down perceptual principles?

5. Why, based on the research on heuristics and cognitive biases, might people who visit Mexico overestimate their likelihood of being a victim of crime?

6. Suppose you wanted to learn the names of everyone in your psychology class (or, as many names as possible). What strategy should you use? Why, from a depth of processing perspective, would this be a good approach?

7. What factors promoted and inhibited obedience in the Milgram study?

9. Based on research in social and cognitive development, is “nature” or “nurture” more influential in determining what someone is like? Justify your answer with evidence.

10. There is a somewhat rare syndrome, of unknown cause, called People with somncantoism sing while they are sleeping. How could one determine if genetics play a role in somncantoism?

12. Beth is so terrified of snakes that even walking on sidewalks covered with earthworms after a rain storm makes her feel anxious. What might a therapist who has a cognitive-behavioral orientation do to help her address this phobia?

Answer 1

• ANSWER-Experimental research has an advantage over descriptive and correlational research as it allows for drawing conclusions about the causal relationships between independent and dependent variable.Correlational research cannot be used to draw causal relationships between variables as well as Desciptive research also does not assess relationships among variables,as it could be considered unethical if participants do not know they are being observed.
• The disadvantage of experimental research is that it cannot manipulate many important variables in everyday life as it might be expensive and time consuming,and also because it is mostly conducted in lab settings than in real environment.
• Certain social variables cannot be studied using this research,like for instance to study the personalities of people who join suicide cults and compare it with those who do not join such cults.This can be studied using correlational research,because the researcher cannot experimentally manipulate these variables.
• Correlational research allows for testing relationships between variables and making predictions.It can assess relationships in every day life variables.
• Descriptive research tends to provide a complete picture or snapshot of what is happening at a given point in time in the real world and allows for developing questions for further study.
• Due to time limit,remaining questions can be asked as another question,they will be answered,thankyou for your cooperation