Practicals

Question 1

What is the aim of the social practical?

Answer 1

Are there sex differences in obedience levels?

Question 2

What was the IV of the social practical?

Answer 2

If the participant is male or female.

Question 3

What was the DV of the social practical?

Answer 3

Score for obedience out of 40.

Question 4

What were possible EVs of the social practical?

Answer 4

Personality, upbringing.

Question 4

What was the sample of the social practical?

Answer 4

Opportunity sample of 30 males & 30 females.

Question 5

What was the procedure of the social practical?

Answer 5

Lead participants into a room one by one and give them a questionnaire with open, closed, and likert scale questions on it to complete in 15 mins.

Question 6

What were the results of the social practical?

Answer 6

Females had higher obedience score-> higher mean.
Females had more varied scores-> larger SD

Question 7

What was the conclusion of the social practical?

Answer 7

Generally, females are more obedient than males so sex does have an affect on obedience.

Question 8

Two strengths of the social practical?

Answer 8

Standardised questionnaire so more reliable as replicated easily.
Qualitative data so more detailed and more information.

Question 9

Two weaknesses of the social?

Answer 9

All participants from England so shared characteristics makes results less generalisable because sample less diverse.
Participants know the purpose of study so demand characteristics may be shown.