How are case studies useful in understanding human behavior?
1. you get very rich and detailed data, due to them being longitudinal studies. 2. You can get both qualitative and quantitative data meaning you have more ways to evaluate the study, and therefore the behaviour. 3. Due to it being a case study and therefore longitudinal, you watch the behaviour change and develop over time and can then draw more reliable conclusions. These are the ones I can think of from when i studied psychology lol @Dosage: it can’t determine the behavioural factor in a population because a case study is almost always conducted on an individual or small group. Therefore the external/ecological validity of a case study is very, very low as the findings cannot be generalised to the population.
