Introduction
Psychology is the study of the state of mind and how it affects the behavior of living things. People relate differently in learning institutions and some students are bright and others are dull. The cultural practice of people all around the world differs in one way or the other. These are the different behavioral dimensions that a psychologist has to study. People in organizations have different views on diverse topics. It is also a subject of psychology why people change their behavior after consuming alcohol. Psychology, therefore, is diverse and wide and covers many aspects of human behavior as noted by Halling (2008).
Causal Research
Scientific experiments have shown that there are reasons for causes of one thing or another to happen. A causal research experiments the effect of the outcome on experiments of behaviors and thoughts of a human being. Experiments are based on theories that might be facts or fiction and describe psychology. Not all theories on psychology have been accepted some have fallen out of favor of human behavior. Causal research tends to foresee what a decision made today will affect the future e.g. of a company.
An example
of this type of research is when an advertising company decides to enter into the broadcasting industry stakeholder have to evaluate the effect a broadcasting company will bring to their advertising they, following causal research bosses will decide whether entering into broadcasting will be profitable as reliably noted by Halling (2008).
Descriptive Research
Descriptive research describes the existence of a current event in a group, population, or country. Descriptive research is mostly used for statistical analysis of a population or phenomenon. Researchers use this method to answer the question, why, when, how, where, what, etc. Researchers in this field deals with everything that can be counted or studied.
According to Halling (2008), there is no theory research involved in descriptive everything goes from explanatory research to fact findings. An example of this research is when an institution has been infected with an airborne disease descriptive research has to be conducted to determine how many people are affected and how many have not been affected, this will help prevent the spread of that particular disease and to save those who are not affected and also treatment will be appropriately offered to those affected according to Earl (1989).
Relational Research
This is research that involves two or more variables. A one-on-one conversation between two researchers undertaking the same research is relational research. Relational research also encompasses the comparison of two items that are already present within a population. A perfect example is a research conducted to determine the relationship between students and their lecturers, how well the two co-exist in an institution of learning. The study on how employees of an organization collaborate with the employer, the challenges the two parties are facing in their relationship will be perfectly handled by a relational researcher as noted by Earl (1989). Therefore relational research is a measure of two variables that are present in nature.
Dialogue between researchers and co-researchers is the discovery of a relational research technique on fact-finding. However, not every relational researcher will engage in a proper and required demand. Relational research is done on a selective basis and therefore cannot be commissioned without the need for it. This can be an organization seeking to establish a relation between two variables that affect its operations. Therefore, it hires a relational researcher to conduct a study on that topic (Halling, 2008).
References
Earl, B. (1989).The Practice of Social Research. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Halling, S (2008). Intimacy, Transcendence, and psychology: Clossness and Openness in Everyday Life. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.