Learning Practical Flashcards
What is the aim of your learning practical?
To observe the behaviour of males and females on public transport, comparing good manners and bad manners using covert, non-participant, naturalistic observation.
What is the abstract of your learning practical?
Aim: observation of males and females’ behaviour on public transport
Procedure: Created a coding scheme of good manners and bad manners, sat on the bus in the morning and evening rush hour in pairs for a week to track behaviours, recorded behaviour we saw from coding scheme, calculated results into a chi-squared formula
Result: 30 rude males vs 16 rude females
Calculated value of 9.098, critical value of 3.84 a two-tailed hypothesis (P<0.05) = significant
What is the alternative hypothesis (one-tailed) of your learning practical?
Males will show more polite and less rude behaviours than females on public transport to and from college during morning and evening rush hour on 20 minute journeys
What is the sample of your learning practical?
Opportunity sampling of 100 participants gathered from public transport to and from college during morning and evening rush hour on 20 minute journeys
What is the procedure of your learning practical?
Created a coding scheme of good manners (e.g. saying excuse me) and bad manners (e.g. putting your feet on a chair)
Piloted the study (to ensure inter-rater reliability)
Sat on the bus in the morning and evening rush hour in pairs for a week to track behaviours
Recorded the first behaviour we saw from coding scheme and didn’t count any others (for nominal data)
Used a 2 x 2 matrix to tally behaviours
Calculated results into a chi-squared formula
What were the results of your learning practical?
30 rude males, 20 polite males, 16 rude females, 34 polite females
Calculated value of 9.098, critical value of 3.84 a two-tailed hypothesis (P<0.05)
What was the conclusion of your learning practical?
Males and females behave differently in terms of good and bad manners on public transport
What is a strength of your learning practical regarding the sample?
Both males and females’ good and bad manners were looked at on public transport so results about politeness/rudeness on public transport will be more representative of a wider population
What is a weakness of your learning practical regarding the sample?
All from the north east so it is ethnocentric meaning the results about rudeness/politeness is not generalisable or representative of other cultures
What is a strength of your learning practical regarding the procedure (validity)?
Low in demand characteristics as ppts did not know we were observing their positive/negative behaviours as it was a covert observation so they would not have changed their behaviour meaning the results gained are more valid
What is a weakness of your learning practical regarding the procedure (extraneous variables)?
Extraneous variables (e.g. mood) may have affected the results of politeness/rudeness more than gender so results about how behaviour on public transport differs between males and females may not be valid as other factors could have influenced them
What is an improvement to your learning practical?
What is a strength of your learning practical regarding the procedure (standardisation)?
Standardised coding scheme of rude and polite behaviours so the study is easier to repeat to see how reliable the results about manners on public transport are
What is a weakness of your learning practical regarding the procedure?
Missing out behaviours when noting things down/counting person’s behaviour once (e.g. showing a rude behaviour followed by 2 polite behaviours, polite ones aren’t counted) so results about rudeness/politeness are not accurate as they may be recorded incorrectly
