Field Experiments

Question 1

Is field experiments a primary of secondary data?

Answer 1

Primary data

Question 2

What is the 2 researchs for this and explain?

Answer 2

1) Rosenthal and Jacobson - randomly tested students IQs and returned a year later to them and they made the most progress and the teacher payed attention to them
2) Rosenthan (1973) - fake patients with schizophrenia went to a mental hospital, they stopped complaining about hearing voices but the nurses still treated them the same due to their label

Question 3

What are 2 advantages of practical?

Answer 3

1) natural, real life experiments - valid data
2) easier to gain access due to the natural environment

Question 4

What are 2 advantages of ethical?

Answer 4

1) limiting harm - explains the nature of the study
2) alerts is of the dangers e.g milgrams study of obeying authority figures

Question 5

What are 2 advantages of theoretical?

Answer 5

1) reliable - easy to repeat
2) can investigate labels

Question 6

What are 2 disadvantages of practical?

Answer 6

1) less control due to it being in a natural environment
2) difficult to control extraneous variables- more realistic

Question 7

What are 2 disadvantages of ethical?

Answer 7

1) informed consent may always be gained
2) deception - participants are lied to

Question 8

What are 2 disadvantages of theoretical?

Answer 8

1) lacks verstehen
2) extraneous variables can’t be controlled