6RM

Question 1

What is a lab experiment

Answer 1

Where researchers create a controllable environment to test hypotheses

Question 2

What is a field experiment

Answer 2

An experiment carried out in a natural social setting which aims to control as many variables as possible

Question 3

Example of a field experiment

Answer 3

Rosethen Being Sane in Insane Places
studied in a psychiatric hospital where normal people admitted themselves after hearing voices, all participants but one was labelled with schizophrenia, difficult to tell who actually is mentally ill

Question 4

Example of a lab experiment

Answer 4

Asch, studied conformity
Pps were all asked to judge the length of a line, 7 were confederates answering wrong on purpose
Results, Pps answered questions incorrectly to conform to group answers

Question 5

Strengths of lab experiments

Answer 5

Controlled conditions allow accurate results

High in replicability

Question 6

Limitations of lab ex

Answer 6

Setting is unnatural, low in ecological validity
Deception is likely, unethical
Hawethrone effect is likely

Question 7

Strengths of field ex

Answer 7

Setting in natural, high in ecological val
Behaviour likely to be typical and natural, no hawthorne effect
Unlikely to guess the aim of the experiment, no demand characteristics

Question 8

Limitations of field ex

Answer 8

Unethical, informed consent in unlikely
Real life settings need to give permission
Uncontrollable extraneous variables