Lab experiments
- Created by: annagaskell
- Created on: 16-04-19 12:18
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- lab experiments
- favoured by positivists
- quantitative data
- easily controlled and replicable- can establish cause and effect
- high internal validity
- objective
- practical issues
- uses small sample sizes- not useful for researching wide scale phenomena such as voting
- expensive- specialist equiptment and location
- cant be used to study the past
- not possible to control all variables that may influence behaviour
- ethical issues
- lack of informed consent
- argued may not be necessary- result in hawthrone effect
- Elton mayo0- presence made workers act differently
- eg/ milgrams research
- argued may not be necessary- result in hawthrone effect
- deception
- eg/ milgrams research
- participant harm
- lack of informed consent
- theoretical issues
- not favoured by interpretivitsts
- not qualitative, subjective data
- cant gain versthein
- artificial, unnatural behaviour
- not real life environment
- prefer field/ comparative method
- not favoured by interpretivitsts
- favoured by positivists
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