A Case Study Would Be the Most Appropriate Method to Investigate

question 235

Multiple Choice

A case study would be the most appropriate method to investigate which of these topics?

• A) The ways in which the games of boys differ from the games of girls.
• B) The development of a male baby raised as a female after a surgical error destroyed his penis.
• C) The math skills of students in Japan as compared to those of U.S. students.
• D) Physiological changes that occur when people watch violent movies.

---

Definitions:

George Miller

A psychologist best known for his theory on the limits of short-term memory, proposing that people can hold about 7 (plus or minus 2) items in their working memory.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

A German psychologist known for his pioneering work in the study of memory, including the discovery of the forgetting curve and the spacing effect.

Iconic Memory

A type of visual sensory memory that holds a brief photographic image for a few seconds after the exposure to the original stimulus.

Photographic

Pertaining to or using light in the production of images, often used in context with photography or imaging techniques.