Experimental Deigns

Question 1

What is independent group design

Answer 1

There are different participants doing tasks in the different conditions
Eg. One group does a task in one condition and one group does a task in the other condition
Adv- no order affects
Dis- differences between people affect results and more participants are needed

Question 2

What is independent group design

Answer 2

There are different participants doing tasks in the different conditions
Eg. One group does a task in one condition and one group does a task in the other condition
Adv- no order affects
Dis- differences between people affect results and more participants are needed

Question 3

Repeated measures design

Answer 3

The same people do the task in different conditions
Adv- less participants are needed
-participants don’t have differences as they are the same groups
Dis adv- order affects , some may preform better due to being more experienced or worse due to fatigue

Question 4

Matched pairs

Answer 4

People are matched with others because of their traits and each one in the pair does one condition each.
Adv - no order affects
And differences between the participants are minimised
Dis adv- need twice as many participants
- time consuming to find participants who match as well