Case Study Method in psychology
Case Study Method :-
- This is one of the main method in psychology. This method is used by clinical psychologists to identify the pathological symptom and its causes among the persons. That is the reason it is also called as clinical method.
In this method the psychologist to understand the behavior of a person prepares a descriptive history of that person that contains all the incidence of his life, from the pre natal period to till date. That is why this method is also called as case history method.
The main Merits of this method are as follows:
i) Psychologist prepares a separate historical record for each person to find the cause of behavior, therefore an intensive study of a person can be done.
ii) By this method the mental and physical development of a person can be studied. This method helps the psychologist to reveals about the personal stages a person has gone through in his past life and the influence of those stages in his physical and mental development.
iii) In case study method the base of study is the case description. Therefore the psychologist has full chance to focus on the problems of the person and the cause behind those problems.
Demerits:
i) In case study method the base of studying the behavior is past history, which is completely developed by the informations collected from person’s, parents, relatives, friends and relatives. It is generally seen that parents, friends, relatives or neighbours hide those incidents or facts of the person’s life due to moral obligations, as a result of which the informations provided by them to the psychologist becomes biased and the study done by using these informations do not remain highly reliable.
ii) There is no appropriate technique in case history method to check the accuracy of the information collected during preparation of case history record.
iii) In this method the psychologist should be trained and have a sound knowledge of conduction of interview and psychological tests. Generally it is seen that this method can be used by normal psychologists. In such case the results and facts obtained are not highly reliable.
iv) In this method if a person with specific characteristics is taken for study than the results obtained cannot be generalized.
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Important Points :-
- In the present chapter methods of psychology and measure of central tendency are discussed. Invigilation method is also called as observation method. In this method the observer studies the behavior of the organism or person.
- The case study method is used in clinical psychology to identify the symptoms of any disease and the cause responsible for it.
- Generally the conversation between two or more persons for any specific cause is called as an interview.
Survey method, experimental method introspection method are the basic psychological methods. - The measure of central tendency are- Mean, Mode, Median. In the present chapter frequency distribution, linear presentation, graphical presentation, frequency polygon and histogram are discussed.
1. The meaning of frequency is:
a) Scores
b) No. of repetitions of scores
c) Multiple of scores
d) None of these
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2. Which of the method is not suitable for absolute frequency distribution?
a) Exclusive method
b) Inclusive method
c) Exact method
d) None of these
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3.) Which is the formula for range?
a) (H-L)+1
b) (H+L)-1
c) (H-L)
d) NONE OF THESE
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4. The symbol of size of class interval is:
a) Y
b) X
c) i
d) p
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5. Which of the following is a graphical method?
a) Frequency polygon
b) Histogram
c) Bar diagram
d) All the above
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