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Psychology Research methods
Title: Psychology Research methods
Category: Science & Technology
Details: Words: 690 | Pages: 2.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Psychology Research methods
Sobel and Lillith’s study into the determinants of nonstationary personal space invasion, sets out to examine and explore the behavior and reaction of subjects whose personal space may be violated or crossed into. The study, which was conducted in April 1974 on 34th street in New York City, examined 116 subjects using 2 observers and 2 experimenters.
The notion of bias, both for the authors as well as the observers plays a strong part in this study. Both …showed first 75 words of 690 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 690 total…would not have known the gist of the study. This could have reduced the bias, and the assumptions made by the observers. The research group should have also stood independently from one another, to assure that independent observations were made. All in all, the study was performed well. With the exception of the information mentioned above, the authors met the criteria they were in search of, and wrote a well-organized and well thought out article.
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