Phone Useage Flashcards
What is the aim of this research?
Investigate the effect of gender on mobile phone use
What is the type of observation? (2)
Non participant
What is the IV (2)
Gender
What is the DV (2)
Mobile phone use
What are the behavioural categories? (2)
0= no use
1= brief use
2= frequent / continuous use
What are the confounding variables (2)
Expecting an important call or text
Social anxieties
Group relationship (size, closeness)
What are the extraneous variables (2)
Signal
School rules about phone
Time of day
Members of authority in the room
What type of hypothesis is this? (2)
Non directional
What is the alternative hypothesis?
There will be a difference in mobile phone use between makes and female students
What is the method? (2)
Field experiment
Who makes up the target population? (2)
Students in sixth form who are using their phone
Who is our sampling frame (2)
A group of two or more students who will be using their phone
What sampling method is used? (2)
Opportunity
What are the ethics (2)
Privacy- May feel judged, invaded
Confidentiality- no one is named or described
Deception- give debrief after
Right to withdraw- they don’t know
Informed consent- covert observation
Protection from stress- May feel judged for being on their phone
How will you insure internal reliability?
Same criteria
Observe same behaviour
Compare recordings
How can you ensure external reliability (2)
Test re test
What causes the validity issues?
Demand characteristics
Social desirability
How will you deal with these validity issues?
Covert observation
So participants cannot be influenced
What is the measures of central tendency? (2)
Mode
Split into categories
What type of data is it? (2)
Nominal
What is the inferential statistics test? (2)
Chi squared
What is the observed value? (2)
14.27
What is the critical value? (2)
5.99
What does p <0.05 mean?
The chances of results being due to error
Were the results significant? (2)
The observed value (14.27) is greater than the critical value (5.99) so the results are significant as for this test the observed value must be greater than the critical (two tailed test)
We accept the none directional hypothesis and reject the null hypothesis
What are the conclusions?
There is a significant difference between males and females phone use age
Ways to improve (2)
Researcher bias
- interpreting behaviour, influencing tally records, over coke inter rater reliability
Categories
- need to be more specific
Participants
- could have more male or female p’s
- didn’t remove other people that could’ve been aware of the study (y13 students)
