I have put together topical past papers where each paper is specifically focused on a particular topic and only includes questions within that topic. In this document you will find all sorts of questions on research methods. This is a lengthy paper that I do recommend attempting all questions on. T...
, A psychologist wanted to test whether listening to music improves running performance.
The psychologist conducted a study using 10 volunteers from a local gym. The psychologist
used a repeated measures design. Half of the participants were assigned to condition A (without
music) and half to condition B (with music).
All participants were asked to run 400 meters as fast as they could on a treadmill in the
psychology department. All participants wore headphones in both conditions. The psychologist
recorded their running times in seconds. The participants returned to the psychology
department the following week and repeated the test in the other condition.
Identify the type of experiment used in this study. Shade one box only.
A. Laboratory
B. Natural
C. Quasi
D. Research
People’s perception of how they spend their time at the gym is often not very accurate. Some
spend more time chatting than on the treadmill. A psychologist decides to observe the actual
behaviour of an opportunity sample of gym users at a local gym.
Explain why it is more appropriate for the psychologist to use an observation than a
questionnaire in this case.
,Design an observational study to investigate how people spend their time at the gym.
In your answer you will be awarded credit for providing appropriate details of:
● Type of observation with justification
● Operationalised behavioural categories
● Use of time and/or event sampling with justification
● How reliability of data collection could be assessed
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