Identify three reasons for conducting a literature search on the ...

[lak]

Identify three reasons for conducting a literature search on the topic of your research.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Describe how three different types of psychologists (e.g., social psychologist, developmental psychologist) could study a concept like happiness.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[nanny]

Answer to Question 1

a. you can avoid merely repeating what others have done; that is, you can conduct a replication with extension, generating new knowledge.
b. you can see what methods and procedures have worked for others and adopt them for your own work
c. you can learn about the different ways that others have investigated the topic of interest to you

Answer to Question 2

a. a social psychologist could study how interactions with others influence happiness
b. a psychometrician would try to figure out ways to define and measure happiness
c. a neuroscientist could study what areas of the brain are involved in feelings of happiness
d. a developmental psychologist could monitor patterns of happiness through the lifespan
e. a clinical could investigate how people with emotional disturbances regain feelings of happiness.