How do you gather information about the behavior and mental processes of other people? Which of the methods described in this section come closest to your own? Are your methods adequately scientific? Explain.
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- Observational methods: Watching and recording behaviors as they occur in their natural settings. - Experimental methods: Manipulating variables to determine cause and effect relationships. - Survey methods: Collecting data from a large number of people Show more…
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