Lab experiments

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  • Created by: joy.yuma
  • Created on: 13-03-18 20:22

Experiments

Advantages

  • Reliability - favoured by positivists
  • Used to identify cause and effect

Disadvantages

  • Small samples - lacks representativeness
  • Difficult to control variables
  • Deception - people may not know they are participating in a study
  • Hawthorne effect - not a natural environment

Evaluation

Although positivists would use lab experiments to identify cause and effect interpretivists argue that humans have free will therefore we cannnot be studied like plants. They propose using field experiments instead.

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