Final Week

(Regarding Chapter 13) Which of the research methods listed in Table 13.3 seem the most interesting? Assume you want to study some aspect of deception. Frame a research question. Which method would you choose to answer the question. Why?

I really like the "ethnography" research method, because it relies heavily on up-close personal experience and sometimes participation, so the research is not limited to strictly observation. This research relies on documentation, interviews and observation to gather its results. It's a great way to tap the local points of view as it tells you right away what you need to know, because the source of information is the people living there and not documents written by somebody.

Formulated question:

Name a situation where you had to deceive somebody in order to make the situation better? I would use qualitative research to gather the data needed, because this allows you to use surveys and then you can ask a lot of open-ended questions to find out what you are looking for.

Final Week

2). What concept/s in this class have you found most interesting? What was it about that concept/s that you found interesting?

I really found the concept of "perception" to be quite intriguing. Being that it is one of the oldest fields in psychology, we are still having trouble explaining that field and how to correctly perceive a person.

There are different types of perception that I learned: Phenomenal based strictly on observation and psychological. I also learned that there's passive perception, which is making thoughts about something or somebody based on your surroundings. I would also like to learn more about the brain and what really occurs inside as we are making perceptions about people and or things. Another goal of mine is to learn about the speed that we tend to perceive things.

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3). Pick one other concept in the book that you feel needs further discussion?

One concept that needs further discussion is the concept of "self-disclosure." Many people struggle with that concept, because it is hard to judge how a person will feel when we tell them something personal. Often we feel that we can tell that person anything that is on our minds, but sometimes we get a reaction from them that we were not expecting.

Often they will not return the favor of self-disclosing to us, and this makes us feel like we were cheated of their honesty. Perhaps if people knew how to best measure when and what to disclose, they would not struggle with this concept as much.