Resarch Methods Mock Exam

Question 1

What are the 4 types of experiment?

Answer 1

Labatory experiments
Field experiments
Natural experiment
Quasi-experiment

Question 2

What is a laboratory experiment?

Answer 2

Conducted in a controlled setting.
They have high internal validity because extraneous variables can be controlled for.
They are replicable.

Question 3

What is a field experiment?

Answer 3

Conducted in a natural everyday environment.
Can be in any real-world setting with researchers manipulating the independent variable and its impact on the dependent variable.
Has high ecological validity and mundane realism.
Difference between this and labatory is the participants don’t know they’re in an experiment.

Question 4

What is a natural experiment?

Answer 4

Conducted when the independent variable occurs naturally.
The dependent variable can be tested in a laboratory.

Question 5

What is a quasi experiment?

Answer 5

Where the independent variable which is not directly manipulated by the experimenter e.g gender