Behavioural research on human working memory: mixing qualitative and quantitative methods

The long lasting opposition between qualitative and quantitative methods for studying behaviour has been overridden by interdisciplinary work in which methods can be combined to approach animal and human behaviour, thus contributing to drawing rigorous and useful conclusions. We show an example o...

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Autores principales: Bacigalupe, María de los Ángeles, Tujague, María Paula, Späth, Griselda Margarita, Lahitte, Héctor Blas
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Publicado: 2013
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Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/100958
https://ri.conicet.gov.ar/11336/8569
http://revistaliberabit.com/es/revistas/RLE_19_2_investigacion-conductual-sobre-memoria-de-trabajointegrando-metodos-cualitativos-y-cuantitativos.pdf
http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=68629471005
http://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1729-48272013000200005&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=en
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topic Psicología
Humanidades
Behavioural research
Mixed methods
Tower of Hanoi
Working memory
Investigación conductual
Métodos mixtos
Torre de Hanoi
Memoria de trabajo
spellingShingle Psicología
Humanidades
Behavioural research
Mixed methods
Tower of Hanoi
Working memory
Investigación conductual
Métodos mixtos
Torre de Hanoi
Memoria de trabajo
Bacigalupe, María de los Ángeles
Tujague, María Paula
Späth, Griselda Margarita
Lahitte, Héctor Blas
Behavioural research on human working memory: mixing qualitative and quantitative methods
topic_facet Psicología
Humanidades
Behavioural research
Mixed methods
Tower of Hanoi
Working memory
Investigación conductual
Métodos mixtos
Torre de Hanoi
Memoria de trabajo
description The long lasting opposition between qualitative and quantitative methods for studying behaviour has been overridden by interdisciplinary work in which methods can be combined to approach animal and human behaviour, thus contributing to drawing rigorous and useful conclusions. We show an example of this by combining a quasi-experimental design and descriptive methods to study working memory for the resolution of a spatial problem task (the Tower of Hanoi) in a neuropsychiatric hospital inpatient with amnesia and executive deficits. Results from the quasi-experiment showed that the patient acquired strategies to solve the task with a high level of efficiency (F3/35 = 7, 19, p < .01). Qualitatively speaking, the patient developed more than one strategy to solve the problem, which indicates the presence of learning based on working memory. In the light of these findings, we discuss issues of mixed methods research and suggest the importance of developing mixed methods to study behaviour.
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author Bacigalupe, María de los Ángeles
Tujague, María Paula
Späth, Griselda Margarita
Lahitte, Héctor Blas
author_facet Bacigalupe, María de los Ángeles
Tujague, María Paula
Späth, Griselda Margarita
Lahitte, Héctor Blas
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title Behavioural research on human working memory: mixing qualitative and quantitative methods
title_short Behavioural research on human working memory: mixing qualitative and quantitative methods
title_full Behavioural research on human working memory: mixing qualitative and quantitative methods
title_fullStr Behavioural research on human working memory: mixing qualitative and quantitative methods
title_full_unstemmed Behavioural research on human working memory: mixing qualitative and quantitative methods
title_sort behavioural research on human working memory: mixing qualitative and quantitative methods
publishDate 2013
url http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/100958
https://ri.conicet.gov.ar/11336/8569
http://revistaliberabit.com/es/revistas/RLE_19_2_investigacion-conductual-sobre-memoria-de-trabajointegrando-metodos-cualitativos-y-cuantitativos.pdf
http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=68629471005
http://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1729-48272013000200005&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=en
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