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Flashcards by Raz Saifullah, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Raz Saifullah
over 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Aim | He wanted to measure children's behaviour before and after television had been introduced to the town and also to compare the children's behaviour with that in other towns that had TV |
| Procedure | Notel Unitel Multitel Measuring: Aggression in classroom in playground Leisure activities IQ Creativity and reading ability |
| Results | Notel Twice as aggressive Less than half the time on leisure activities Increased gender differences Less creative IQ dropped |
| Conclusion | Notel showed increased levels of aggression because of the introduction of television as it had increased far more than the towns that already had television. |
| Strengths | Natural experiment - realism is higher Same children followed - directly comparable Observed in natural surroundings |
| Weaknesses | Researchers did not control what or how much TV the children watched or the adult supervision Observations may have been biased |
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