Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Primary and secondary research methods

Research Methods

primary and secondary research methods

Most species have a natural drive to learn. Humans, especially children, are inherently curious about their surroundings. A small child will learn by interacting with their environment. The child will touch things to see how they feel, smell things to learn the different scents, and taste things to find out whether or not they are pleasant. The very young children will participate in all of these activities, but at such an early age may not have all of the words to describe their experiences. A young child will pet a dog to see how the dog’s fur feels, or might touch a hot stove and find out that it hurts, maybe not knowing it actually burns. Either way, the child takes away some knowledge from both experiences and files it away in their brains for later use. 
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These methods of learning do not escape us as we grow older. The same senses are used to learn as humans mature. New words are learned and new results from new “experiments” and environmental tests are discovered. As adults, we still learn through the utilization of our five senses. We still taste things to find out if we like a new food. We still smell things to find out if it is a scent we would like for an air freshener for our homes. We still touch things such as fabrics to find out if the blanket we want to purchase is soft enough. research study methods 

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