Variables keywords Flashcards
Randomisation
Everyone in the target population has an equal chance of being selected
Standardization
Keep everything the same
Investigator effects
Participants pick up cues from the investigator and change their behavior
Demand characteristics
Participants pick up cues from the environment and change their behavior
Social desirability bias
Participants change their behavior to what they think is socially acceptable
Participant variables
individual differences between participants
Situational variables
Outside influences on the experiment
Experimenter varaibles
Factors of how the experimenter may affect results
Double blind
Neither participants or researcher know what condition they’re in
Single blind
The participants don’t know which condition they’re in