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What is a Laboratory Experiment?

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Highly Controlled and Artificial

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What is a Field Experiment?

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Controlled Variables in a natural/realistic environment

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What is a Quasi(Natural) Experiment?

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No control over the independent variable- it’s naturally occurring. e.g gender- no direct control.

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Strengths of Lab Experiment…

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-Ensures that the variable manipulated is the only thing affecting the behaviour
-Easy to replicate
-Can show cause and effect

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Weaknesses of Lab Experiment…

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-Less Ecological Validity
-Demand characteristics
-Ethics

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Strengths of Field Experiment….

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-More Ecological Validity
-Less demand characteristics

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Weaknesses of Field Experiment ….

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-Variable manipulated may be affected by something else like the situation or participants
-Difficult to replicate

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Strengths of Quasi Experiment…

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-Allows the study of the effects of the variables psychologists can’t manipulate or change on behaviour
-Can show cause and effect

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Weaknesses of Quasi Experiment…

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-No control over participants- may be confounding variables which influence behaviour
-Not easy to replicate

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What is the Independent Variable…

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Thing you change

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What is the Dependent Variable…

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Thing you measure

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What is Validity?

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Measure of how well a test measures what it claims to measure

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What is a Confounding Variable?

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Something affecting your results (the DV) that is not spotted by the experimenter

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What are Participant Variables?

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Changes from the people doing the test (tired or bored)

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What are Situational Variables?

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-Something about the situation that affects DV
-Changes in where the test is (noise, temperature, time of day)

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What are Experimenter Variables?

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Changes from the experimenter (tone of voice, body language)

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What is an Extraneous Variable?

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A variable that could affect the DV but has been controlled for so it doesn’t become confounding and affect the results (validity)

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What is Experimental Design?

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How you put people into groups and run the experiment

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What is Independent Measures Design?

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Participants take part in one condition (2 groups)

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What is Repeated Measures Design?

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Participants take part in both conditions

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What is Matched Pairs Design?

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Participants are matched in each condition for characterstics that may affect their performance- makes it similar

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What are Individual Differences?

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Differences between people (participant variables)

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What are Demand Characteristics?

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People behave accordingly to the aim

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What are Order Effects?

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Caused by repeated tests (situational variable)

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Strengths of Independent Measures Design?

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-Only in one condition- fewer situational variables such as demand characteristics- increases validity
- If someone drops out you can find someone else- only one piece of data

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Weaknesses of Independent Measures Design?

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  • Participant Variables decrease validity
  • Twice as many people needed
  • One group may be better than the other( individual difference- participant variables)
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Strengths of Repeated Measures Design?

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  • Controlling Participant Variables increases validity
    -See a clear difference between participants in both conditions
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Weaknesses of Repeated Measures Design?

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-Participants might act accordingly-order effects- this affects validity
- Two tasks must be prepared, equivalent difficulty and may be counterbalanced
-Situational Variables affects validity
-Lose 2 sets of data if someone drops out

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Strengths of Matched Pairs Design?

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-Less Individual Differences so less participant variables improving validity as its been controlled
-No Problems with order effects

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Weaknesses of Matched Pairs Design?

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-If someone drops out you have to find another mate or you risk losing 2 sets of data
-Requires work to match participants, especially on characteristics like IQ that needs testing.

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What process is used to deal with Order Effects?

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  • ABBA counterbalances the study and controls the order of the task, whilst not affecting validity.
    A-B
    B-A
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What is Operationalising Variables?

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How you manipulate the Independent Variable

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How do you write an Alternate Hypothesis ?

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There will be a significant difference between…
Then the IV and DV needs to be operationalised

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What is a Null Hypothesis?

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Hypothesis of no effect (used for statistical testing)

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How do you write a Null Hypothesis?

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There will be no significant difference between…
Then the IV and DV needs to be operationalised
Any difference will be due to chance

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Why do Participant Variables Occur?

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Not everyone is the same. You can only limit the effect of individual differences.

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How to Solve Individual Differences…

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  • Take a large sample so that extreme cases have less effect on the overall result
    -Random Allocation- individuals with very high or low scores may be called Outliers
    -Repeated Measures Design- so you can get the same participants but use them twice
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How to Solve Situational Variables…

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-Standardisation-All must follow exactly the same procedure: same order, timings, equipment, surroundings
-Counterbalancing(ABBA)- Half of participants do Task A followed by Task B, the remainder do it the other way round. This increases validity as the differences should balance out

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How to Solve Experimenter Variables…

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-Experimenter uses Standardised Instructions
-Single Blind-Participants don’t know what the study is about- increases validity but because of ethics they have to give informed consent, so lowers ethics
-Double Blind- Participants and Investigator don’t know what the study is about

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What is Conformation Bias…

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When the experimenter has already made their mind up. Body language or tone of voice alters their response towards participants

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