{"id":437,"date":"2018-11-05T21:53:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T21:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/irmp102\/?page_id=437"},"modified":"2018-11-05T21:53:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T21:53:14","slug":"single-subject-research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/irmp102\/learning-pathways\/experimental-research-methods\/single-subject-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Single-Subject Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\">\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"thumb tleft\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner thumbnail\" style=\"width:220px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/WikiEducator.org\/File:Child_Playing.jpg\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/WikiEducator.org\/images\/thumb\/c\/c2\/Child_Playing.jpg\/218px-Child_Playing.jpg\" width=\"218\" height=\"307\" class=\"thumbimage img-responsive\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\">Child Playing<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Just as this course is principally concerned with quantitative research, it also focuses on group research, which typically involves studying a large number of participants and combining their data to draw general conclusions about human behaviour. Single-subject research, on the other hand, typically involves studying a small number of participants and focusing closely on each individual. Single-subject research is an important alternative to group research, and in fact is the primary approach in some areas of psychology.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"activity\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/irmp102\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/Icon_activity.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Open Textbook Reading Activity<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Read <span class=\"newwindowlinks\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/opentextbc.ca\/researchmethods\/part\/single-subject-research\/\">Chapter 10 of your textbook (Single-Subject Research)<\/a><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both\">\n<\/p>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.015 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.016 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 92\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 824\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 2251\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 668\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 7\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key wikiedu-mw_:pcache:idhash:184446-0!*!*!*!*!2!* and timestamp 20181105210257 and revision id 1056982\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/irmp102\/learning-pathways\/experimental-research-methods\/complex-research-designs\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/irmp102\/learning-pathways\/experimental-research-methods\/activities-and-assessments-checklist\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<br \/>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Child Playing Just as this course is principally concerned with quantitative research, it also focuses on group research, which typically involves studying a large number of participants and combining their data to draw general conclusions about human behaviour. 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