If you were a forensic psychologist and someone asked you to create a true experiment using...

If you were a forensic psychologist and someone asked you to create a true experiment using a factorial design to study psychopaths, explain the following: -What would be your experimental conditions in your study (remember there must be at least 2)? -How would you measure them? -What would you expect to find?

Expert Solution

Psychopathy is a personality disorder in which people have persistent anti-social behaviour, lack of empathy and guilt for wrong doings.

Factorial design- It is design in which the selected values of two or more independent variables are manipulated in all possible combinations so that their independent as well as interactive effects upon dependent variable may be studied.

Experiment- An experimental research is one where the independent variables can be directly manipulated by the experimenter, and participants or subjects are randomly assigned into different treatment conditions.

Here, in this case dependent variable- psychopath behaviour

1. I would take two experimental conditions or independent variabls-

A. Parenting styles- Authoritarian, Authoritative, permissive, and neglecting

B. Socio- economic status- high, medium, and low

2. I will assess parenting style by using Psychometric test for parenting style and socioeconomic status will be assessed using checklist for it.

I think the results would find that children of parents who use neglecting parenting would be more inclined towards to grow up as a psychopath and those children belongs to low social economic as well as more inclined to grow up as a psychopath.

Hayet Jeridi answered 4 months ago

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