Experimental design Flashcards
Define confounding variables
secondary, unintended independent variable which has the potential to alter results
Give an example of an environmental confounding variable
Temperature, feature of the environment that can alter behaviour
Define the issue of participant characteristics
Individual participant differences pose an issue to researchers whom want to observe specific behaviour
What is in between participant design?
Participants do different parts of the experiment, random allocation choses which part they do
What is in within participant design?
All participants take part in all of the researches conditions
What is connivence sampling?
Using whoever is available in order to increase the amount of participants
What is the purpose of a control group?
Participants who take part in a neutral condition in order to gauge the normal behaviour
Define independent groups?
Individual groups experience separate conditions of the experiment
What is a Quasi experiment?
The variables that are being measured can not be controlled as they simply exist
give an example of a variable to be measured which is suitable for a Quasi experiment
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