quasi experiment

Question 1

what is a quasi experiment

Answer 1

participants can’t be randomly assigned IV levels they’re an innate characteristic of participants

Question 2

positive: ethical and practical feasibility

Answer 2

quasi experiments allow researchers to study variables that cannot be ethically or practically manipulated

Question 3

negative: control of variables

Answer 3

less control over confounding variables so hard to establish cause and effect relationships between variables

Question 4

positive: ecological validity

Answer 4

high ecological validity - applicable to real life situations

Question 5

negative: lack of random assignemnt

Answer 5

participants are not randomly assigned to conditions so there is a higher risk of confouding variables influencing results and correlations

Question 6

negative: lower internal validity

Answer 6

lack of random assignments and less control over extraneous variables so difficult to control for potential differences between groups - can introduce biases into results

Question 7

positive: convenience

Answer 7

random assignment is not necessary so quicker

Question 8

negative: replication

Answer 8

due to depending on natural settings its harder to replicate under same conditions so may reduce reliability of findings