25 Jan Consider factors associated with behavioral sciences research
Consider factors associated with behavioral sciences research. Cite references from your textbook or other scholarly sources to support your response. Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words:
Why is it important to have an operational definition of psychological constructs? What might be a good operational definition of the psychological construct of anxiety?
Provide an example of a correlation. What might be an example of a third variable that could account for the correlation?
What is the difference between experimental and non-experimental methods in terms of design and conclusions that you can draw about the data?
Read the case study and answer the questions that follow. Add your answers to the final part of your response:
Case Study:
60 children, ages 3–5, are selected to participate in a program for developing nonverbal communication skills. The children were selected on the basis of extremely low scores on a test of nonverbal communication. After participating in the program, the children are re-tested. An average improvement of 59% is observed in the quality of nonverbal communications.
What threat to internal validity is present in this situation? How can this confound be eliminated?
Reference
Cozby, P. (2019). Methods in behavioral research, 14e (14th ed.). McGraw-Hill Higher Education.
