Descriptive Methods
Is the simplest method in the study. There are three methods you can use, that is the survey method, naturalistic observation, and the clinical method.
- Survey Method ( Survey Method) is a research method that uses interviews and questionnaires to individuals in a community. (Lahey, 2000).
- Natural Observation is a method of recording behavioral research that appears in the setting of natural life. (Lahey, 2000).
- Clinical Methods (Clinical Method) is observed when the individual receiving psychological help from a psychologist (Lahey, 2000).
Correlational Methods
- To predict the behavior and mental processes requires knowledge of the relationship between two or more psychological variables.
- Variables are factors that numerical values can vary or be changed.
- Correlational methods examine the relationship between the variables, measures the strength of the relationship between the variables. In the correlation method, the relationship does not equal cause and effect.
Experimental Methods
- The research method allows researchers to manipulate the independent variable (independet variable) in order to study their effects on dependent variables
- Independent variable is a variable that quantitative values can be controlled freely by researchers, while the dependent variable is a variable whose values depend on the quantitative effects of independent variables.
- Allow researchers to make cause and effect conclusions.
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