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.
Weblinks
Experiments and experimental designs in psychology
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.