Compare and contrast retrospective and prospective research designs. What are the benefits and problems of these designs?
What will be an ideal response?
Retrospective research designs study people with a disorder by collecting information about their lives before they became sick. The problems are faulty and selective memory, and bias on the part of the person and the researcher. Prospective research designs find people with high risk of developing a disorder before they have it, measure variables ahead of time, and track the people to see who develops the disorder. The problems are that you can't know how many will develop the disorder and it is a small sample size. GRADING RUBRIC: 10 points, 5 points each.
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a. ?for positivism in psychology b. ?for the acceptance of animal psychology c. ?that mental concepts are "valueless to science" d. ?for a functional and pragmatic approach to psychology e. ?for experimental research on human infants