Personal Investigation 1- An Experimeny On Language And Music Flashcards
What is a experiment
A experiment is an investigation to test a hypothesis in a controlled condition
What was your null hypothesis
There will be NO difference in a performance score if students on a language test when they learned Portuguese colours with music compared to those without music
What was your alternative hypothesis
There will be a difference in the performance score of students on a language test when they learned Portuguese colours with music compared to without music
What was your IV
Wether they learned with music or no music
Your operationalisation of the iv
The music song
What was your DV
performance
Your Operationalisation of the DV
Score on the test
Type of meathod used
Experiment
Does your study produce quantitative or qualitative data
Quantitative
What was one strength AND one weakness of your experiment
Strength- easy to analyse
Weakness- not in depth
What was the experimental design used
Independent group measures
Your sample
6th formers who don’t speak Portuguese fluently
Sampling technique used
Opportunity sampling
What’s a line graph
A diagram that shows a linear representation of frequencies of data.
Bar charts
A diagram that represents frequencies of non-continuous (discreet) data .
Histogram
A diagram that represents the distribution of frequencies for continuous data
No gaps between bars
Scatter diagrams
A diagram that represents a relationship / correlation between 2 or more variables
What are distribution curves
Linear representations of data that included a mean, median and modal score to show a spread of data
What’s a negative skew
A type of skewed distribution where the mode is greater than the mean
What are normal distributions
The type of skewed distribution where the mean median and mode are equal
