Psychology:- Careers Areas of Study, and Impact

Running head: PSYCHOLOGY
PSYCHOLOGY
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Question 1:
The case study involves video game addiction of the children where the parents and
children are worried about the serious addiction of the patient. In this context, in order to gather
the research data, the best possible research method would be a qualitative research design where
the data collection method would be a semi-structured interview. The qualitative research would
enable researchers to gain an understanding of the perspective of the focus group. The focus
group would-be parents and teacher in this context (Castillo-Montoya, 2016). The interview
would be the best possible data collection method as it will allow researchers to connect with the
parents and teachers and gather the perspective regarding what they will consider as an abnormal
condition or addiction for a videogame.
Question 2:
In order to assess the condition to be an abnormal assessment of the attention and
selective attention is required to consider in this context. The degree of attention of the children
will provide the idea of whether the children are suffering from ADHD or not. The selective
attention will provide the idea of whether the attention is specific to the videogame or not.
Additionally, four D of abnormal psychology can be assessed for understanding whether the
condition is abnormal or not. The four D stands for deviance, dysfunction, distress, and danger
where DSM IV-TR diagnosis process would be used to make the decision whether the condition
of the children is abnormal or not (Oldehinkel, 2019).
Question 3:
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