Psychology practicals paper 1
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- Created on: 18-05-19 16:22
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- Paper 1 Practicals
- Cognitive
- To investigate the difference in recall of a list of 30 words based on if the list was organised or unorganised
- Mann-Whitney U Test
- Difference
- Independent Groups
- Ordinal Data
- Na=10, Nb=10, U = 39.7, C=27, as U>C results not significant at p< 0.05 value
- 3 mins to learn, 3 mins to recall, 30 words, double blind
- Evaluation
- PV - 16-18 year olds have better memory recall than rest of pop
- EV - could be better with a shopping list
- CV- testing memory recall as desired
- R - would get the same results again as all extraneous variables were controlled
- O - no opinion in counting the numbers of words recalled
- Learning
- To investigate the difference in politeness of genders, based on a 'thank you' or equivalent as they leave the class
- Chi-Squared
- Independent Groups
- Nominal data
- Difference
- X=14.8, C= 10.03, X>C results are significant at p< 0.01 value
- 25% of males were polite vs 58% females polite
- F; 'thank you, have a good weekend' M; 'cheers' as they walked out of the room
- Eyeball test for gender, 'thank you' or equivalent
- Evaluation
- EV- could have been better in a variety of locations
- PV-more susceptible to social heidchary, therefore less likely to thank teacher s
- CV- does not include shy people, they may be polite by too shy to thank their teacher noticeably
- R-did not have enough control over extraneous
- O- no judgement involved
- Social
- To investigate the difference in attitudes based on the sense of belonging to a group
- Graph
- Self report questionnaire that we made up ourselves, only one open question
- In + = 7.6 Out + = 0.4 In - = 3.7 Out - = 4.8
- 'Rugby players are real men', 'more musculine', 'physically superior'
- Evaluation
- PV- more acceptable to exaggeration and social desirability
- EV- not a stereotypical environment to see the views, would be better asking after a game
- CV- our questionnaire wasn't piloted and so we didn't notice the double question 'overpaid divers', might agree with one and not the other
- Reliability- closed likert scale are but open question is not, thematic analysis
- O- closed questions have no opinionbut open questions do
- Biological
- To investgate the relationship btweenpre-natal testosterone and aggression
- Digit span to 2 d.p. and Buss & Perry self-report questionnaire
- Spearman's Rank
- Relationship
- Orrdinal
- N=10, C=-0.564, R=-0.175
- Evaluation
- EV- not provoking aggression so low
- PV- 16-18 year olds prone to exaggerating or social desirability
- CV- good methods but could be better if measured in womb (PFH)
- R- both are unlikelychange
- O- no opinion involved in collection or analysis of data
- Cognitive
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