Laboratory Experiments
- Created by: amberhenton
- Created on: 23-03-14 12:03
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- Lab Experiments
- is a test carried out in controlled conditions in an artificial setting to establish a cause and effect relationship
- the purpose is to manipulate the variables and then make generalising opinions about society
- Advantages
- They are highly reliable
- It's a very detached method
- Disadvantages
- Hard to control all the variables
- Cannot be used to study the past
- Can only study small samples
- Needs informed consent
- Difficult to get from children and people with learning difficulties
- May cause harm to the participants
- The Hawthorne effect
- Favoured by Positivists
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