2.7.3 Location Of Research

Question 1

outline the location of the research for your correlation

Answer 1

Online - internet used as a tool to conduct psychological research

Psychologists can observe new behaviours online as well as traditional psychological topics more efficiently and o a scale and scope much larger than 50 years ago

Question 2

Outline one strength of conducting your correlation online

Answer 2

• Can access diverse, large samples
• data is collected electronically
  > easy to analyse
  > easy to replicate

Question 3

Outline one weakness of conducting your correlation online

Answer 3

• Ethical issues in regards to informed consent and participant identity
• question mark over the honesty of participants and the validity of data collection

Question 4

explain two ethical issues which you considered in your correlation

Answer 4

Protection from harm:
- Participants may have experiences a risk of stress or anxiety when completing a stroop task and impulsivity scale
- risk of embarrassment when submitting their results

• frustration after clicking the wrong button on stroop test but knowing the right answer

Question 5

explain how you managed the ethical issues that may have raised in your correlation

Answer 5

• researchers need to get permission from an ethics committee
• participants were fully informed of the aim of study
• informed about their right to withdraw
• informed there was no ‘correct score’ on the test
• participants did a trial test > if found stressful, they could withdraw