For this assignment, you are to compare and contrast four major research strategies commonly used in the field of psychology. These research strategies are the Descriptive research strategy, the Correlational research strategy, the Meta-Analytic research strategy, and the Experimental research strategy. A good deal of this information can be found in your textbook. However, I encourage you to seek additional information from outside resources. When using additional source material and citing information from your textbook, you will find this website to be helpful in properly citing your sources: https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/apa_style_introduction.html (Links to an external site.)
There is a lot of material that is pertinent to this topic; please make sure that you include all relevant information in your paper. For example, if you mention things like case-studies, surveys, the direction of a relationship in a correlation (and you should), you need to go into depth about those in your paper. Also, please know that I am known for being a “hard” grader when it comes to grading papers (consider yourselves warned).
This is an informative, essay-style paper that should be written in standard APA format (concerning references and within-text citations). You do not need to provide a title page, running head, page numbers, etc., but you will need a reference page and within-text citations where appropriate. This paper should be saved as a Microsoft Word document (no other file-types will be accepted), double-spaced, in Times New Roman 12 point font, and 500 words minimum in length. Spelling, grammar, and punctuation do count.
