DIFFERENT TYPES OF EXPERIMENTS

Question 1

what is a laboratory experiment?

Answer 1

controlled designed environment

Question 2

what is a field?

Answer 2

more natural

Question 3

for a field experiment, how is the IV manipulated?

Answer 3

By the researcher

Question 4

what is a quasi-experiment?

Answer 4

preexisting iv
two or more conditions
not to use random allocation

Question 5

what do the strengths and weaknesses revolve around?

HINT: there are three

Answer 5

control of extraneous variable
ecological validity
demand characteristics

Question 6

strength(s) of laboratory experiment

Answer 6

extraneous variables are controlled= cause and effect= replicated easily l/reliability

technical equipment used

Question 7

weakness(es) of laboratory experiment

Answer 7

lacks ecological validity

demand characteristics are increased

Question 8

strength(s) of field

Answer 8

ecological validity, they’re in their own environment and unaware they’re being studied

reduced demand characteristics

Question 9

weaknesses of field

Answer 9

extraneous variables, hard to establish cause and effect

less reliability, harder to replicate

Question 10

strength of quasi

Answer 10

unethical variables are studied

ecological validity

reduced demand characteristics

Question 11

weaknesses of quasi

Answer 11

hard to establish cause and effect

not random allocation