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Lab exp?

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A laboratory experiment is an experiment conducted under highly controlled conditions, where accurate measurements are possible.

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Field exp?

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A study that is conducted outside the laboratory in a “real-world” setting.

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Quasi exp?

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An experiment with a naturally occurring IV.

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Control condition?

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A condition that does not involve exposure to the treatment or intervention under study.

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Independent variable?

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A variable that is manipulated by a researcher to investigate whether it consequently brings a change in another variable.

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Dependent variable?

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The variable, which is measured and predicted to be dependent upon the IV

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Extraneous variable?

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Any variable that you’re not investigating that can potentially affect the outcomes of your research study.

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Independent measures design?

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An experimental design where different participants are used in each condition of the independent variable.

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Repeated measures design?

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An experimental design where the same participants take part in each condition of the experiment.

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Matched groups design?

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An experimental design where pairs of participants are matched in terms of key variables, such as age and IQ.

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Controls?

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A condition that does not involve exposure to the treatment or intervention under study.

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Order effects?

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The order of the conditions having an effect on the participants’ behaviour or/and outcome.

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Counter balancing?

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A technique used to deal with order effects when using a repeated measures design.

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Advantages and disadvantages of repeated measures design?

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ADV:
- Half the number of participants is needed to get the same amount of results as other designs

  • Eliminates participant variables

DVNTG:
- Order effects

  • Participants may eventually work out the aim/ purpose of the study and demand characteristics may arise.
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Advantages and disadvantages of independent measures design?

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ADV:
- No order effects

  • Decreases the likelihood of demand characteristics

DVNTG:
- Results can be affected by participants variables.

  • Twice as many participants needed to get the same sample of results as in other designs
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Advantages and disadvantages of matched participant design?

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ADV:
- Avoid order effects (participants only take part in one condition)

  • Participants’ variables are reduced ( partic. are matched in conditions).

DVNTG:

  • More complicated/time-consuming (pre-tests need to be carried out, to find matching characteristics)
  • Not everything can be matched
  • Twice as many participants are needed as in a repeated measures design, just to get the same amount of results
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Advantages and disadvantages of Lab experiments?

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ADV:
- Highly controlled

DVNTG:
- Low ecological validity

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Advantages and disadvantages of Field experiments?

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ADV:
- Increased ecological validity

DVNTG:
- Lack of control

  • Ethical issues as sometimes participants may not know they are being assessed
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Advantages and disadvantages of Quasi-experiments?

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AD:
- Usually high levels of eco validity, due to the involvement of a naturally occurring IV.

  • Can study the effects of variables that cannot be manipulated (weather).

DVNTG:
- cannot control extraneous variables

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How can Participant variables be controlled?

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  • matched participant design or repeated measures.
  • allocate participants to conditions randomly so that participant variables are more likely to be distributed evenly between conditions.
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How can Situational variables be controlled (order effects) (environmental factors like times of day)?

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  • having different people in each condition (repeated, matched-participant design)
  • if repeated measures design is used, then this should be counter-balanced. This is where the partic. are split into two groups: group 1 does condition A first then conditions B, while Group 2 does condition B first then A
  • introduce controls on the experiment to ensure there are as few differences as possible between conditions (e.g. do them in the same room, at the same time, etc)
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How can Demand characteristics be controlled?

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  • Single-blind procedure
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Advantages and disadvantages of Self-selecting sample?

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ADV:
- Consent

  • Reduces researcher bias

DVNTG:
- more likely to end up with a smaller sample

  • partic. may share similar personality traits (i.e confident to join in, eager to please) reducing population validity
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Advantages and disadvantages of opportunity sampling?

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ADV:
- often allows for a larger sample
- more cost-effective

DVNTG:
- researcher bias
- sample could be ethnocentric

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Advantages and disadvantages of random sampling?

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ADV:
- reduces researcher bias

  • increases population validity

DVNTG:
- often not possible to have access to the whole target population.

  • by chance, there can be an imbalance of genders/ages/personalities, reducing population validity.
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Advantages and disadvantages of snowball sampling?

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ADV:
- access to a wider sample, that researchers may not know (increases reliability) ( reduces researcher bias)

DVNTG:
- participants may only find individuals who are too similar in occupation/ lifestyle, which reduces the reprisentativness of the sample (reduces population validty).

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Advantages and disadvantages of working out the MEAN?

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ADV:
- Takes into consideration all data (nothing is missed out in the calculation)

DVNTG:
- Can be heavily skewed by outliers (may not represent the general score)

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Advantages and disadvantages of working out the MEDIAN?

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ADV:
- Less affected by extreme scores, so results won’t be skewed

DVNTG:
- Can take very long to calculate if working with a large set of data (results have to be put in order first)

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Advantages and disadvantages of working out the MODE?

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ADV:
- Easy to calculate
- Can be used for non-numerical data, e.g what is the average color of a cat?

DVNTG:
- Impossible to calculate if all the data is different

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Advantages and disadvantages of working out the RANGE?

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ADV:
- quick to calculate –even if using a large data pool– how dispersed results are

DVNTG:
- doesn’t consider the entire data set

  • can be skewed by outliers
  • doesn’t give any indication as to whether the spread of scores is evenly distributed (i.e. if there is a cluster of scores towards the top of the data set)
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How do you calculate VARIANCE and what is it?

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  • measure of dispersion that indicates how spread apart the data is within each condition from the average score
    • 1) calculate the mean score per condition
    • 2) for each participant, subtract the mean
      score from their score
    • 3) square each score
    • 4) add all the squared numbers together
    • 5) calculate the mean of these scores added together by dividing by the number of partic. in condition -1
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How do you calculate STANDARD DEVIATION?

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  • square root of the variance
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Advantages and disadvantages of VARIANCE?

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ADV:
- takes account of all the values in a data set, and, as such, it is not affected by outliers o the same extent

DVNTG:
- figure that is calculated is not expressed in the same units that the data in the original data set is

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Advantages and disadvantages of standard deviation?

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ADV:
- expressed in the same unit as the original data set
- takes into consideration the entire data set

DVNTG:
- time-consuming and more difficult to work out compared to the range score

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