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Topic 01 – Experimental Methods & Aims

PRACTISE makes PROGRESS not PERFECT!03/09/2016Lesson 02: IVs and DVs

ARRIVAL ACTIVITY: Using the words from the cue card on your desks try to develop a definition

of “The Experimental Method”

Work in tables, write your answer on a post-it.

PRACTISE makes PROGRESS not PERFECT!03/09/2016Lesson 01: Experimental Method and Aims


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Topic 01 – Experimental Methods & Aims

PRACTISE makes PROGRESS not PERFECT!03/09/2016Lesson 02: IVs and DVs

5th September 2016

ExperimentalMethod & Aims

Paper 2

Topic One

1/3 June Exam


Creating

Evaluating

Analysing

Applying

Understanding

Remembering

To KNOW and UNDERSTANDwhat the definition of the experimental method is in Psychology.

To KNOW and UNDERSTANDwhat the definition of a research aim is.

To APPLY knowledge of aims to past exam questions

To CREATE a grass-head for use throughout the research methods booklet.


Ideas on your definitions

using key terms

Manipulating

Variable

Changes

Changes

Causes

Another

Variable

Control

Hypothesis


The Experimental

Method

The “Experimental Method” involves manipulating one

variable to determine if these changes cause changes in

another variable. This method relies on high levels

of control to test a hypothesis


Research AimA general statement about

what the researcher intends to investigate; the purpose of

the study.


• A1) Dave, a middle-aged male researcher, approached an adult in a busy street. He asked the adult for directions to the train station. He repeated this with 29 other adults. Each of the 30 adults was then approached by a second researcher, called Sam, who showed each of them 10 photographs of different middle-aged men, including a photograph of Dave. Sam asked the 30 adults to choose the photograph of the person who had asked them for directions to the train station. Sam estimated the age of each of the 30 adults and recorded whether each one had correctly chosen the photograph of Dave.

• Identify one aim of this experiment. (2 marks)

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• One aim of the investigation is to see if the age of participants affects their ability to identify a person. (Credit relevant alternatives)

• 1 mark for a very brief or muddled aim eg to investigate whether participants can identify a man in a photograph or to investigate memory.

• For 2 marks the aim must be more detailed eg to investigate the effect that age has on participants ability to identify a man from a photo line up.



• A2) It is thought that colours might affect our performance when carrying out certain tasks. Research in this area has been inconclusive. Some studies have shown that red improves performance but others have found the opposite. It could be that these contradictory results have arisen because red is beneficial only for certain kinds of mental processing. Some psychologists tested this hypothesis in a series of independent-groups design experiments using students at a Canadian university. The experiments involved computer tasks, with either a red, blue or neutral background appearing on the monitor. The researchers found that participants were better at a word-recall task and a spell-checking task when the screen background was red rather than blue or neutral. However, participants thought of more creative ideas when the screen was blue rather than red or neutral. The researchers concluded that red is beneficial for tasks that require attention to detail whereas blue aids creativity.

• What were the researchers’ aims in this study? (2 marks)



• AO2/AO3 = 2 marks

• They wanted to clarify some of the issues raised by previous research where some studies had shown that red facilitated tasks and other studies had shown the opposite. They believed that one way to reconcile these different findings was to look at particular cognitive tasks eg ones which required attention to detail and to compare them with tasks which tap into very different skills eg creativity and thus to narrow down the benefits of providing red backgrounds.

• One mark for a brief answer eg 'they wanted to investigate the effects of colour on performance.'

• One further mark for elaboration, in relation to colour and / or performance.



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