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EXPERIMENTS IN PSYCHOLOGY
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You are to work through the slide show and answer the questions as you go along. This exercise is not a race but a learning process, so take your time and make sure that you understand each slide.
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Slides
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27 & 28
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What do you understand by the term ‘variable’? |
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What do you understand by the term ‘abstract concepts’? | |
| 27 & 28 | What do you understand by the term ‘observationalism’? | |
| 29 | What do you understand by the term ‘independent variable’? | |
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What do you understand by the term ‘dependent variable’? |
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| 30 | What do you understand by the term ‘extraneous variable’? | |
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What is the difference between a random and a constant extraneous variable? |
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What are systematic and unsystematic variables? |
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| 32 & 33 | What are controls for? | |
| 34 | What are the areas / techniques in which experiments can be conducted? |
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| 35 – 46 | What do you understand is meant by the term ‘laboratory experiments’? | |
| 35 – 46 | What do you understand is meant by the term ‘field experiments’? | |
| 35 – 46 | What is meant by the term ‘natural techniques’? |
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