Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Experimental Method
- Ethical Issues
- Valid Consent
- Deception
- Risk of Harm
- Confidentiality
- Privacy
- Scientific Method
- Observe - Explain - State Expectations - Design a Study - See f your expectations were correct
- What will you measure?
- The Dependent Variable (DV
- What are your two conditions?
- This is called the Independent Variable (IV) e.g. TV on and TV off
- What will you expect to find?
- This is your hypothesis (different to aims).
- What will the participants do?
- You worked out a set of standardised procedures.
- What do you need to control?
- You will have tried to control some confounding variables.
- What is the main characteristic of an experiment?
- There is an IV which is deliberately changed to see if there is any effect on the DV.
- This permits us to draw causal conclusions. We can
make a statement about whether the two
conditions causes the result because we can
compare the effect of the two levels of the IV that
have been deliberately manipulated.