Evaluations Flashcards
Cultural Relativism
Are the findings specific to a particular culture?
Demand Characteristics
How far do participants respond to the demand of the situation?
Deterministic
Do the results suggest that everything will happen in a set way?
Dispositional Factors
How far are the results affected by personality/individual factors?
Ecological Validity
How far does the experiment reflect real life?
Ethics
How far are the BPS/APS code of ethics upheld? If not, why not?
Experimental Design
What design is used? How good/poor is it?
Experimenter Bias
Does the experimenter view the results biased to the aim?
External Validity
How artificial is the experiment?
Freewill
Opposite of deterministic. Is the participant able to exercise choice?
Generalisation
How far can we apply the findings to the human race?
Holistic
How far does the study deal with the whole and not just parts?
Individual Differences
How do people differ from each other? (e.g. by personality, experience, nature, nurture)
Internal Validity
How far do participants believe in the situation?
Limited Application
How far are the findings limited? (e.g. by gender, culture)
Methodology
Are there any issues with the methodology? Use of control?
Qualitative Data
Non-numerical data. Words, open responses etc.
Quantitative Data
Numerical data. Numbers, scales, closed responses etc.
Reductionist
How far are the results explained by a single factor?
Reliability
Can the study be repeated? How consistent is the measuring device?
Sample
Sampling device? Size and makeup?
Situational Factors
How far are the results affected by the situation?
Temporal Validity
Is a study only applicable to the time it was carried out?
Usefulness
Are the findings useful? Do they create a starting point?
Validity
Is a study measuring what it sets out to measure?
