Practical Issues in the Design and Implementation of Research Flashcards
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Sherif
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- Field experiment so high ecological validity and mundane realism with tasks like baseball.
- Matched on sporting ability and IQ, reducing PP variables, increasing internal validity.
- Some boys said they guessed something was going on, could have altered behaviour.
- High cost of running a summer camp for 2 weeks.
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Baddeley
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- Opp sample: all shared similar characteristics so could reduce generalisability.
- IM reduced demand characteristics as PP couldn’t guess study.
- Hearing test before to prevent extraneous variables and increase internal validity.
- Low mundane realism as recalling word list in order is not how memory works in real world.
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Raine
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- Matched pairs with control group to remove PP variables.
- Small sample so results may not be G to wider pop.
- Brain scans are empirical, increasing validity. Also are replicable.
- Low ecological V as during the murders the PP would not be in a controlled setting.
- Cost of doing scans would have been a lot.
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Watson and Rayner
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- Small sample.
- Albert described as ‘stoic and unemotional’ may not be representative of a normal person.
- Lab setting so extraneous variables controlled.
- Tested for phobias beforehand so can establish a clear C and E relationship.
5
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Bandura
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- Matched pairs on aggression so individual difference on natural aggression will not impact on the results.
- Nursery was a natural setting.
- Large sample of 72.
- Lab setting with unusual task
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Pavlov
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- Standardised procedures.
- CC is an empirical theory as it measured directly through behaviour.
- Research on animals may not be directly applicable to humans.
- Artificial lab setting. Metronome bell low in ecological validity.