An experiment where neither the experiment or the participant knows the precise aims of the procedure
Double Blind
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Output of the experiment, an aspect of the participant’s behavior this can be measured in the study.
Dependant Variable
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features of an experiment that help participants work out what is expected of them, and lead them to behave in certain predictable ways.
Demand Characteristics
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attempts by the experimenter at the end of a study to provide detailed information for the participants about the study and to reduce any distress that they might have felt.
Debriefing
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withholding information or misleading research participants.
Deception
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: a prediction that there will be a difference or correlation between two variables and a statement of the direction of the difference.
Directional hypothesis
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variables which can affect the behaviour of participants such as age, gender, intelligence level, type of task, personality etc.
Extraneous Variable
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the extent to which the findings of an experiment/study can be applied to every day situations.
External Validity
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Ecological Validity is the degree to which the behaviors observed and recorded in a study reflect the behaviors that actually occur in natural settings. In addition, ecological validity is associated with "generalization". Essentially this is the ext
Ecological Validity
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Questions concerning what is wrong and right
Ethical Issues
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a study in which the experimental method is used in a more naturalistic situation.
Field Experiment
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a statement of what you believe to be true
Hypothesis
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Card 2
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Output of the experiment, an aspect of the participant’s behavior this can be measured in the study.
Back
Dependant Variable
Card 3
Front
features of an experiment that help participants work out what is expected of them, and lead them to behave in certain predictable ways.
Back
Card 4
Front
attempts by the experimenter at the end of a study to provide detailed information for the participants about the study and to reduce any distress that they might have felt.
Back
Card 5
Front
withholding information or misleading research participants.
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