The experimental method

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What does an experimenter need to obtain from the PPs prior to crarrying out their investigation?
infromed consent
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Why is it important to dereaif pps after the experiment?
to inform them of any deception and allow them the oppertunity to withdraw from the study
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What is being measured in any experiment?
the dependent variable
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What is being influenced in any given experimnt?
the independent varible
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Why is it impotant to maintain staderdised procedures?
to reduced the effect of a lack of internal validity in the experiment due to the procieedures affecing the DV rather tan the IV
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what is a hypothosis?
the predicted relationship between the IV and the DV
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Why is it important to operationalise the varibles in an experiment?
to make sure they are in mesurable
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what are extrenuous variables?
these are variables that effect the outcome of the DV but do notvary systematically with the IV these need to be controled for to ensure validity
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