Experimental design (Locations)

Question 1

What is a laboratory experiment?

Answer 1

Controlled environment where distractions are reduced and participants are usually tested one by one.

Question 2

Problems with Laboratory experiment?

Answer 2

Artificial and doesn’t reflect behaviour in everyday life due to high control.

Question 3

What’s a Field Experiment?

Answer 3

One that takes place in a participants natural environment (workplace)

Question 4

Potential problems with a field experiment.

Answer 4

More authentic situation so behaviour is more realistic

Hard to control extraneous variables.(background noise)

Question 5

What is a natural experiment?

Answer 5

One that isn’t set up or run by researcher- happens spontaneously in real life

Question 6

What are potential problems with natural experiments?

Answer 6

Ideal for studying harmful situations like child neglect/ effect of drugs- researcher is not responsible for outcome

Hard to tell if effects observed are from the IV affecting DV