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crazycityslicker

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Describe the retrospective and prospective research designs. What are the benefits and problems of these designs?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Which of the following was an important part of the foundation of abnormal psychology?
 
  a) mapping the human genome
  b) drug therapy outcome studies
  c) in-depth studies of deviant people
  d) physiological research on brain dysfunction



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Answer to Question 1

Retrospective - study people with a disorder by collecting information about their lives before they became sick.
Problem is faulty and selective memory, bias on the part of the person and the researcher. Prospective - find
people with high risk of developing a disorder before they have it, measure variables ahead of time and track the
person to see who develops the disorder. Problem  can't know how many will develop the disorder  small
sample size.

Answer to Question 2

c



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