Harper University PSY 228 Research methods

1. Our second assignment has us investigating a developmental psychopathology

2. Developmental psychology is the study of the way individuals develop over the course of the life-span.

3. A psychopathology focuses on how and when psychological disorders/concerns develop and how they affect the outcome or totality of the life. Some of the disorders studied include abuse, autism, attentional and learning disabilities, reactive attachment disorder, trauma, ( a variety of trauma concerns), sleep disorders, substance use and abuse, anxiety, phobias, and depression, prenatal exposure to a specific teratogen, suicide, eating disorders, psychotic disorders to name a few.

4. We want to consider the diagnosed disorder/concern. What is in place to offer assistance or support for the individual and their family?

BEGIN:

1. Select the psychopathology.

2. Select a developmental stage, for example: newborn, infant, early childhood, middle/late childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle-adulthood, later adulthood…

3. Enter the word scholarly and your information from above into your search bar

4. The article must be current, within the last 4 years

5. NOTE+If you search Google Scholarly you may locate an article to discuss. Please consider writing down the title of the article and author name, or cut and paste into the information into the search bar at the Harper Library. Please don’t pay for an article.

Explore!

Once you find your article and read through it and answer the following questions. Please do not rewrite the questions. Number your responses.

1. Discuss what the authors were investigating…3-4 sentences or more…found in the introduction section

2. Explore and report the aim or purpose of their study and state which method of research is being employed? Is this a case study, correlation study, cross-sectional study, longitudinal study, experimental design,  3-4 sentences or more found in the introduction section

3. Discuss what the researchers were expecting to show/find?   3-4 sentences or more found in the introduction section

4. Discuss their hypothesis?   1-2 sentences or more found at the end of the introduction section

5. Who were their study participants? How were the participants selected for the study? Did they receive any benefit for participation?   6-8 sentences or more found in the methods section

6. Detail what was expected of them? Were they in a treatment group? Did they complete interviews, surveys, in-depth/clinical interviews, standardized tests, what did they do? Name the types of measures used. For example, if the researchers used the HADS, Hospital Anxiety, and Depression Scale, explain that. This information is found in the methods section 8-10 sentences or more

7. Discuss the outcome of the study and explain what the researchers would state that they might do differently in the future or what future research should consider.  Found in the discussion section.  6 plus sentences or more

If you would like to comment on the statistical applications mentioned in the results section, please do so.