Types of Experiments
- Created by: PsychoMunchkin
- Created on: 22-04-22 11:21
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- Types of Experiments
- Quasi
- The IV is naturally occurring and is not manipulated by the researcher (because it cannot)
- Strengths
- Can look at variables that would be impossible or unethical to investigate otherwise
- can be carried out either in a lab or natural environment
- Weaknesses
- Difficult to establish cause and effect
- Sampling bias more likely to occur
- Laboratory
- The IV has been manipulated and the experiment is conducted in a controlled or artificial environment
- Strengths
- High control
- High replicability
- Cause and effect relationship can be found
- most scientific (use of scientific equipment)
- Weaknesses
- High chance of demand characteristics
- Often low in ecological validity
- Field
- The IV has been manipulated and conducted in a natural environment (where you would expect that behaviour)
- Strengths
- Cause and effect relationship can be found
- High(er) in ecological validity
- Weaknesses
- Harder to control variables
- Higher chance of confounding variables
- Difficult to replicate
- Less scientific
- Quasi
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