Experiments Flashcards

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Confederate

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A person who us aware of the experiment and works for the researchers. They are used to manipulate social situations as part of the research design

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Demand characteristics

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If you the participant is aware that they are in an experiment sometimes they change there behaviour and try to guess the aim of the experiment (which ruins the experiment)

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External validity

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Can we generalise from our results

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Longitudinal study

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A study conducted over a long period of time with the same participants

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Generalise

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Do they represent the whole population?

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Internal validity

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Are we measuring what we intend to measure?

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Participant variables

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Individual differences between participants eg. Age, memory

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Temporal validity

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Can we generalise to other time periods or today’s society?

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Confounding variables

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Any variable that varies systematically with independent variable

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Mundane realism

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Can it be applied to everyday life?

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Natural behaviour

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How they behave naturally in a natural environment

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Dependent variable

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Thing that’s measured

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Independent variable

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Thing that’s changed

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