EXPERIMENTS IN PSYCHOLOGY

 

 

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.

 

 

Slides

 

 

Questions

 

Answers

27 & 28

 

 

 

 

What do you understand by the term ‘variable’?

 

27 & 28

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’?

 

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?

 
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’?