Experimental Designs

Question 1

What is experimental design?

Answer 1

-the different ways in which participants can be organised in relation to the experimental conditions

Question 2

What are independent groups design?

Answer 2

-participants are allocated to different groups where each group represents one experimental condition

Question 3

What are repeated measures?

Answer 3

-all participants take part in all conditions of the experiment

Question 4

What are matched pairs design?

Answer 4

-paris of participant are first matched n some variables that may affect the DV
-then one member of the pair is assigned to A and the other to B

Question 5

What is random allocation?

Answer 5

-an attempt to control for participant variables in an independent groups design
-ensures that each participant has the same chance of being in once condition as any other

Question 6

What is counterbalancing?

Answer 6

-an attempt to control for the effects of order in a repeated measures design
-half experience condition in one order,
the other half in the opposite order