The Case Study Method Is One in Which ________

question 64

Multiple Choice

The case study method is one in which ________.

• A) specially constructed tests are administered to reveal subjects' abilities, skills, career interests, or mental health
• B) researchers manipulate one or several variables while controlling all other variables to measure the impact of the changing variable(s) on subjects and their behaviors
• C) findings are based on the naturally occurring relationships between two or more variables
• D) findings are based on the intensive description and analysis of a single individual or a few individuals

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Definitions:

Pleasure Principle

A psychoanalytic concept that describes the instinctual seeking of pleasure and avoidance of pain in order to satisfy biological and psychological needs.

Personality

A combination of features that delineates an individual's unique character.

Psychoanalytic Theory

A body of theories developed by Sigmund Freud that emphasizes the role of unconscious processes and experiences in early childhood on later personality and behavior.

After-The-Fact Explanations

Reasonings or interpretations provided retrospectively to justify or make sense of events that have already occurred.