Psychology AQA A Research method Q

research method questions, very basic but quite long

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  • Created by: avesta
  • Created on: 18-04-11 20:24
what is an example of an extraneous variable?
time of day
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What is the dependant variable?
what the experimenter is measuring
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what is a laboratory experiment?
when the IV is manipulate dby the experimenter in a controlled environment
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Is the hawthorne effect the tendancy for a participant to alter their behaviour?
Yes
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what is a weakness of a natural experiment?
cannot draw causal relationship
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What way can be used by an experimenter to counterbalance order effects?
ABBA
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What is the name used for Mode, Mean and median?
Central tendancy data
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What is internal validity?
Whether the experiment has mundane realism
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What is a strength of using the Mean?
makes use of all numbers in the data
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Standard deviation involves using........ of the scores in a data
all
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Putting up a notice in a newspaper asking for participants is....
volunteer sample
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What is a weakness of using Mode?
not all of data is used
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What is an independant variable?
something that is directly controlled by the xperimenter
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Soraya

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I dont think we need to know  about the hawthorne effect for the section A paper.

SBDL

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what soraya said, nevertheless good quiz

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