15 marker research methods

Question 1

Four requirements that are essential to include

Answer 1

1. Address all the required features (the four bullet points)
2. Justify your design dictions (why you picked what you did strengths and weaknesses)
3. contextualising your answer- applying your knowledge to the scenario
4. explicitly linking your design decisions to your own practical work

Question 2

My own experiment

Answer 2

If the colour of words influences memory performance.
-Opportunity sample of 20 p’s theses where collected by the people around us, we asked are peers and collage friends if they wanted to take part by going up to them in person they give consent.
-Used RMD, p’s read a list of 20 words in blue and black colour for one minute separately with a 2 minute break in between. this fit the experiment as people have different levels of memory so the same person needs to see how many words they can remember with both colours so results are more valid
-The DV and how it was measured, the amount of words on both sheets of each colour that the participant recalls by writing them down on paper after having a minute to memorise them, measured by counting how many words was recalled.
-extraneous variables, wasn’t as standardised as it could be, some p’s took the test in loud conditions and some in silence which could have had a large effect on the result

Question 3

my correlation

Answer 3

Correlation into shoe size and height
- I used an opportunity sample by asking those around me in my collage and home, worked well , got a large sample of 20 p’s and it didn’t take long to recruit them
- I measured the hight of p’s by asking them what they believed there height was, a self report method, wasn’t accurate p’s could lie about their height may feel embarrassed by it because they don’t meet social norms height or could just not know hoe tall they are because they haven’t measured themself for a while
-I measured the p’s show size by a self report method
- my extraneous variable in my study didn’t actually measure their shoe size and height and they could have lied or been unsure about these measurements, this would effect the validity of the results

Question 4

My observation

Answer 4

Into behaviours of customers in MacDonalds
-Opportunity sample of one table at MacDonalds
- unstructured observation, just wrote very behaviour we saw
-Naturalistic, in their natural environment -Overt -doesn’t know they are in a study #
-Partipant observation- even through we aren’t interacting with the p’s, we are in the same room and could influence their behaviour
-Time sample every 10 minutes we record an observation for 2 minutes, 8 minute break and did this for an hour and a half
- Blend in and get food and have conservations in the 8 minute break

Question 5

my self report

Answer 5

`Using a questionnaire about the different patterns of dreams people have.
-large sample size of 30, was oestrogenic bias meaning answers more inclined from a female view, age bias majority of p’s above age 20
-Opportunity sample
-6 questions e.g. how often do you dream
-open question hard as the researcher to gather data as there was such a range and variety of answers