Case Studies
- Created by: Eleanor Girling
- Created on: 09-01-13 18:48
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- Case Studies
- Gathers indepth detailed rich data
- Single or small group of people
- Triangulation is used to draw conclusions
- Interviews and questionaires
- Gathers Quantitative and Qualitative data.
- Evaluation
- Reliability - cannot replicate the study - every case is different - and so it is very difficult to tell using the case study method whether particula situations reliably lead to particular outcomes.
- Validity- Real life therefore has a lot of validity. Behaviour is natural and well collected.
- Ethical issues mean we cannot recreate the real stress of Privation. or simmulate it in a laboratory.
- Ethically there are issues with the idea of privacy as people can easily be identified.
- Ethically we are not causing any harm just recording events which occured.
- Some Psychologists put research over the welfare of the individual and cause harm - i.e Genie.
- Case histories are often contructed
- Examples
- The Czech Twins - Koluchova
- Little Hans - Freud
- Used in cases where other methods would not be ethical.
- Occur in rare child situations
- Used in cases where other methods would not be ethical.
- Gathers indepth detailed rich data
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