Practical Activities In Class

Question 1

Experiment

Answer 1

Ball in the bucket: threw from standard distance with audience making noise and then when silent (repeated measures) boggle: whether first born people have greater language ability then later born people. Mean score on boggle and presented in a bar chart. pictures or words: whether we could recall more items in picture or word form (didn’t have to give scores of embarrassed, repeated measures so controlled p variables, calc mean scores from ordinal data so easy to interpret)

Question 2

Questionnaires

Answer 2

Asking males and females about sport and exercise. How much time they spent exercising each week in hours and minutes (can rank, face validity..

Question 3

Correlation

Answer 3

Relationship between reaction times and tiredness. Using tap app and rating scale of tiredness

Question 4

Observation

Answer 4

Abbey road, students use of mobile phones (both had categories, coding frame, poster displayed) also gender diff If either uses for calls rather than texting