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Chapter 3 – Experiments and experimental designs in psychology

This chapter introduces the general concept of an experiment and goes on to outline basic uses of this design in psychological research.

Exercises

Exercise 3.1

The nature of experiments

This is a true/false quiz to test your knowledge of the advantages of the experiment as a research method.

Exercise 3.2

Identifying experimental designs

In this short quiz you will need to read each research description and identify the specific experimental design.


This is a link to word frequency lists.

http://kilgarriff.co.uk/bnc-readme.html

The Research Methods Knowledge Base pages on experimental design.

https://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/desexper.php

Places where you can participate in online research.

https://www.socialpsychology.org/expts.htm

https://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/desexper.php