Describe the retrospective and prospective research designs. What are the benefits and problems of these designs?
What will be an ideal response?
Retrospective - study people with a disorder by collecting information about their lives before they became sick.
Problem is faulty and selective memory, bias on the part of the person and the researcher. Prospective - find
people with high risk of developing a disorder before they have it, measure variables ahead of time and track the
person to see who develops the disorder. Problem – can't know how many will develop the disorder – small
sample size.
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a. scale of measurement b. probability c. variation d. correlation