Investigator effects Flashcards
What are investigator effects?
Any cues (other than IV) from an investigator that encourage certain behaviours.
What do any cues act as?
Extraneous or confounding variables.
What is another definition of investigator effect?
Anything that an investigator dies that has an effect on.a ppts performance other than what was intended.
What are the three ways they can be dealt with?
Single blind design.
Double blind design.
Experimental realism.
What is a single blind design?
When the ppts are not aware of the research aims and/or witch condition they are receiving.
What is a double blind design?
Both the pats and the experimenter are ‘blind’ to the aims and/or hypothesis.
What is experimental realism?
If the researcher makes an perineal task sufficiently engaging, the ppts pays attention to the task and not the fact that they are being observed.
