Social Approach Flashcards
Counter balancing is used with the design to help overcome order effects
Independent groups
Repeated measures
Matched pairs
Unrelated groups
The measurement obtained by adding up scores and dividing by the number of scores is known as the
Mean
The consistency of a test - a test that produces the same results on a different occasion
Reliability
Example of an independent groups design
You compare 20 boys with 20 girls on a reading test.
Variables in the environment which may affect your results
Situational variables
Examples of non-directional (two-tailed) hypotheses.
- People will treat members of their in-groups differently to members of an out-group
- There will be a difference in levels of obedience between men and women
Discrimination can be defined as
Behaving differently towards someone from another group
A study investigating the role of context cues was carried out by
Borden and Baddeley
Participants who continued shocking to 300 volts
100%
Participants who continued shocking to 450 volts
65%
The mode is defined as
The measure which is most common in your data set
A histogram can be used to
Show the frequency distribution of scores
A disadvantage of quantitative data
Produce narrow, artificial information
A procedure which is common and identical for each participant
Standardised procedure
Why is it important to debrief participants in experiments
To ensure they understand the true purpose of the experiment
