Question

8 An assessment or research strategy that focuses on obtaining in-depth information about a single individual is termed a(n). strategy. A strategy that uses data obtained from many people to form general laws and knowledge about a condition that can be applied to any case is called a(n) _strategy. Please include terms for the two blanks (in order) in your answer to receive full credit, like this: 1 2.

Answer 1

8. Below are the answers in the requested format:

1. The answer is case-study. In a case-study method, the researcher or the examiner would understands the in depth information about the subject, and it's often time consuming as multiple factors relating to the individual or a company is studied and also the effects of different factors.

2. The answer is qualitative interviews. In this type of qualitative interviews, the examiner tries to understand the behavior to a given stimulus to generalize the opinions. It is often unstructured and unscientific method of research that provides just the superficial information about a group. The opposite to the same is the quantitative research, which is done on selected individuals and in a fixed experimental setting.

9. The answers are

1. Prototypical

2. Categorical  

DSM is Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which is widely being used in the United States of America by several Psychologists. It is prototypical as in the mental conditions examines the previous medical conditions and largely depends on categorical model although dimensional models are recently proposed but not practiced.

10. The answer is predictive validity.