Define confidentiality. correct answers Not disclosing the identity of participants.
Define privacy. correct answers Keeping information private.
Define laboratory experiment. correct answers An experiment conducted in a controlled environment.
Define field experiment. correct answers A pr...
Define independent variable. correct answers The variable that is changed or manipulated.
Define dependent variable. correct answers The variable that is measured.
Define operationalised. correct answers Making the variables very clear and detailed.
Define confounding variable. correct answers A variable that can affect the results.
Define extraneous variable. correct answers A variable that can affect the results if not
controlled.
Define situational variable. correct answers An extraneous variable present in the environment of
the study.
Define order effects. correct answers Whether participants improve or worsen in the second
condition as they had already been exposed to the first condition.
Define demand characteristics. correct answers Participants alter their behaviour due to knowing
the aims of the study.
Define investigator effects. correct answers When the researcher unintentionally gives clues to
participants, altering their behaviour.
Define standardised procedure. correct answers The procedure is kept the same for all
participants.
Define counterbalancing. correct answers Half of the participants experience condition A and
then condition B, vice versa.
Define randomisation. correct answers Participants are randomly assigned to condition A or B.
Define null hypothesis. correct answers A prediction which will fail to show any difference.
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