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
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