Question

Jamie is conducting a study of hyperactive children. he recruits two children identified by teachers as hyperactive and takes a detailed history by interviewing the child and the child's parents over a period of several days, looking for patterns in the child's early experiences that may have contributed to the child's hyperactivity. jamie's research plan is referred to as the

Answer 1

The research methodology that Jamie is using to study hyperactive children is called a case study.

A case study refers to a study of individual (s), especially for establishing a new phenomenon that does not occur often in the general population. It usually requires an up-close and in-depth look of a subject and it generally requires the use of observation and interviews. The results of the study tend to be more qualitative in nature, though they can also be a mixture of both quantitative and qualitative.

Answer 2

The Case Study Method is the correct answer.

The research plan Jamie chooses to identify what experiences may contribute to children's hyperactivity is referred to as the case study method. A case study method is a deeper analysis of one person's behavior (or a small number of people's) that allows the researcher to obtain more details and also to reconstruct the 'case history' of a participant.