Chaney et al's funhaler study

Question 1

How many participants where there

Answer 1

32 children between 1.2 and 6

Question 2

How was the study carried out?

Answer 2

Children ‘s parents where given a questionnaire about their current inhaler before being given the funhaler for 2 weeks to use and where contacted at random times to ask about there use of it.

Question 3

Why was the study carried out?

Answer 3

to see if the behaviorist approach can be applied to science.

Question 4

What where the results for children using the funhaler?

Answer 4

Percentage of children using day before(random):59(nor) 81(fun)
Achieved 4 or more breath cycles:50(nor) 80(fun)
Successful medicating child always: 10(nor) 73(fun)

Question 5

What was the conclusion of the study?

Answer 5

The funhaler lead to an increase in use from the children and parents where less likely to give up while using it

Question 6

How many questionnaires where there?

Answer 6

2

Question 7

What where the strengths of the study?

Answer 7

• high ecological validity

- highly replicatable

Question 8

What where the weaknesses?

Answer 8

• parents where not informed of the funhaler in the begining
• Validity is questionable as it is a self report
• demand characteristic could be present

Question 9

What type of experiment was it

Answer 9

field experiment

Question 10

What design is it

Answer 10

Independent groups design