Research methods in Psychology

Research Problem: Assessing the level of intelligence in breastfed babies compared to legislation fed babies.

Research Hypothesis: Babies who are breastfed are more intelligent than babies who are formula fed.

a)Naturalistic Observation This involves notice behaviour as it unfolds in natural settings (Study Guide 1, pg 23). available definition of breastfed (IV) in this place setting will be children from hop on four- sestet who make water been breastfed between six to twelve months. It may be suggested to observe children, who had been breastfed in a kindergarten and note their intelligence level by observing them while they are doing their work individually, may even observe their manner of answering questions and completing/ solving given tasks. Operational definition of intelligence (DV) in this context will be establish on the duration interpreted to complete/solve assigned tasks and number of place/ unseasonable answers the children given during questioning time. We can also compare those children who have been formula fed by observing them in the kindergarten too. another(prenominal) way is to observe breastfed and formula fed babies from the age of one-three days in a childcare centre.



In this case, babies in the childcare will be observed for their skills like recognizing alphabets or objects or being able to do simple tasks as in putting shapes into the correct shape holes in a toy.

b)correlational This study finds the degree of relationship between two traits and in this case one trait would be babies who have been breastfed and the other would be the level of intelligence- base on number of correct answers in a test. We may collect data based on duration of the children being breastfed for example three months, six months and etc. Then collect data based on the number of correct answers in a test correct by the same children. Both the data may be measured and then put in graph to keep in line the correlation. A positive correlation would indicate an increase in the duration of children...If you want to get a full essay, localize it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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