Research Issues

Question 1

What are demand characteristics?

Answer 1

Any cue from the researcher or from the research situation that may give hints toward the participants in what the experiment is about

Question 2

What is participant activity?

Answer 2

The tendency for participants to react to cues from the researcher or research environment

Question 3

What are Investigator effects?

Answer 3

Any effects of the investigator’s behaviour on the DV.

Question 4

What are single blind procedures?

Answer 4

When participants do not know which condition they are taking part in in an experiment

Question 5

What are double blind procedures?

Answer 5

When neither participant nor investigator knows which condition the participants are taking part in

Question 6

What is randomisation?

Answer 6

The use of chance to control for the effects of bias when designing materials and deciding the order of conditions

Question 7

What is standardisation?

Answer 7

Using exactly the same formulised procedures and instructions for al participates in a research study

Question 8

What three things can a researcher reduce using standardisation?

Answer 8

Situational variables
Investigator effects
Demand characteristics