Experiments

Question 1

What are the 2 different types of experiments?

Answer 1

Field & Laboratory

Question 2

Example of field & lab experiments

Answer 2

Rosenthal and Jacobson & Milgram

Question 3

Advantages & disadvantages of lab experiments

Answer 3

Advantages:
highly replicable, detatched method as researcher manipulates variables and records results

Disadvantages:
Unrepresentative, Ungeneralisable, Hawthorne Effect, could cause harm to participants

Question 4

Advantages & disadvantages of Field Experiments

Answer 4

Advantages:
Avoids artificiality, can be used to study past events, no ethical problems

Disadvantages:
Gives the researcher less control over variables and field experiments

Question 5

What type of data do experiments produce?

Answer 5

Quantitative primary data

Question 6

What is a Laboratory experiment?

Answer 6

Experiments that take place in controlled environments

Question 7

What is a Field experiment?

Answer 7

Experiments that take place in real life settings