The Process of Research in Psychology
Third Edition
Learning Objectives
After reading Chapter 4, you will be able to:
- Describe how psychologists observe behavior.
- Identify some common techniques for observing and recording behavior (i.e., collecting
- data) in different situations.
- Explain how psychologists use observations to learn about behavior.
- List the questions about behavior that the different research methods allow psychologists to answer.
- Indicate which research method is best when asking about the cause of behavior.