A Level OCR Psychology mind map on experiments from hodder education textbook by Sarah Byrne
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- Created on: 11-01-19 13:51
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- Experiments
- Field
- Controlled = only IV adjusted
- Natural environment
- Little control over EV
- Strengths
- High in ecological validity
- Demand characteristics can be minimised
- Weaknesses
- Ethics
- Lack of consent
- Deception
- invasion of privacy
- Psychological stress
- No debriefing
- Low control over variables
- Difficult to record data
- Difficult to replicate
- Ethics
- DEFINITION: can manipulate IV ? C + E can be inferred
- Laboratory
- Can control EV
- artificial environment
- manipulate IV to measure effect on DV
- By comparing two or more conditions, C + E can be tested
- Weaknesses
- Low in ecological validity
- Often prone to demand characteristics
- Ethics
- Deception
- Psychological stress
- Strengths
- Can show C+E
- Easily replicable
- Highly controlled ? effect of EV is minimised
- Quasi
- usually conducted in a lab
- DEFINITION: Naturally occurring IV ? cannot be manipulated by researcher
- Strengths
- Naturally occurring IV
- Highly controlled so effect of EV is minimised
- Can show C + E
- Weaknesses
- Low in ecological validity
- not easy to replicate.
- Often prone to demand characteristics
- ethics
- Psychological stress
- Deception
- DEFINITION: IV is manipulated to see effect on DV
- Field
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