A psychologist is planning to conduct a study that would examine pathological liars and the quality of their romantic relationships. You have been asked to provide the psychologist with a recommendation for which research method should be used to gather data on the pathological liars and their spouses.
Using the table below list each research method and its advantages and disadvantages for use in this study.
Research Method Advantages Disadvantages
Naturalist observation: observing behavior in the environment in a natural way. This describes and provides data such as behavioral problem, beliefs, opinions, and attitudes. This method is not for making predictions or explanations when it comes to decide the cause of the behavior.
Case study: is a detailed description of one or a few individuals With this study it usually includes real life observation Is just like naturalistic observation bias and must keep collecting more information and it uses different variety of methods.
Survey research: a large group or participants and is asked a standard set of questions It gathers an amount of information quickly and inexpensive Some question can be bias and poorly asked as well as individuals not answering the questions appropriate
Correlations research: this has different methods in observing or examine individuals who are in a relationship Correlation research may clarify relationships between variables that cannot be examined by other research methods. They allow prediction of behavior This does not permit researchers to draw conclusions regarding cause and effect relationships.
Experimental research; this lets one manipulate one or more ways of study Strict control of variables offers researchers the opportunity to draw conclusions about cause and effect relationships The artificiality of the lab setting may influence
