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intro.psych (Psyco 105) Discussion: Group 2 Discussion Group: Reading the Research-DID: Are the participants appropriate for the study?
By Admin on Thursday, November 12, 1998 - 10:24 am:
Kind of a duh question, but worth discussing anyway. What other populations might be used, and how would the research questions change?
I have difficulty deciding whether or not the participants were are appropriate for the study since I realize that getting participants with DID to participate is hard in itself, and any would be good. However, I still believe that due to the nature of the experiment, the participants may not have been appropriate. My reasoning is that the male to female ratio is not represented well (8 women and 1 male). Furthermore, all participants were able to switch personalities at will, which severely limits the validity of the experiment since most people suffering from DID do not have control in switiching personalities at will. Again, however, I must stress that finding participants with DID are at a premium, so I'm sure the researchers weren't too picky. Also, I realize that it would have been hard to do the experiment if the participants could not switch from one personality to another at will, but it still only applies to a small population of people suffering from DID.
I think that participants were appropiate for this study. As Dave said it is very hard to find DID patients. The ratio for women to man is not that great, but They would have to observe the patients first in order to see if they are DID patients or not. Then they would have to test and see if they can switch from personality to personality when asked to by the experimenter. I do find it awkward on how the patient can so esaily switch from personality to personality. Usually patients do not have control for when their personality changes.
Back to the Method
By Daki on Sunday, November 22, 1998 - 08:44 pm:
By Rubina on Wednesday, November 25, 1998 - 08:51 am: