Location of research Flashcards
Laboratory
- an environment which can be controlled by the researcher
- in a controlled environment where they want to control independent variables
Online
- Being connected by the internet to another source
- data can be collected from individuals
The field
- This is not the same as a field
- working in an environment where the participants are more familiar
Laboratory advantages and disadvantages
advantages:
- can allow researchers to measure variables more easily
- easy to control confounding and extraneous variables
- easy to replicate
Disadvantages:
- can cause participants to develop artificial behaviour
- can be time consuming
- may need to not be recorded in a lab
In the field
advantages and disadvantages
Advantages:
- minimise artificial nature of the research as they are in a more comfortable environment
- can examine behaviour in a huge range of contexts as it is real life
Disadvantages:
- more difficult to measure research variables and more difficult to control confounding variables
- not easy to replicate
- can use equipment on a broad scale
Online
advantages and disadvantages
Advantages
- researcher can access large groups of people
- cheap
- quick
- more representative
Disadvantages
- ethical issues such as consent and protection of participants from harm
- cannot debrief participants
- methods can be limited
quasi experiments
- no manipulation to the IV but there is still the ability to measure the DV
e.g people who didnt have TV before and seeing if their social behaviours changed
Difference studies
-IV is naturally occurring and DV can be measured but the IV is already present
e.g gender or being blind
Evaluation of quasi experiments
- Manipulation of the IV
- lack of control over the IV means that we cannot say if the change was caused by the IV
Random allocation
- may be biases within groups as you cannot have independent groups
