| Field non-experiment<\/td> | Field research study, which is not an experiment.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n 1. A researcher\u2019s confederate sang identical songs on two separate days, one day dressed scruffily and the other day smartly dressed. Passers-by were asked to rate the busker\u2019s performance on the two separate days.<\/p>\n\n\n\nShow Answer<\/summary>\nField quasi<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n 2. Participants were allocated at random to one of two conditions of an experiment. In one condition participants were asked to learn a list of 20 words with accompanying pictures. In the other condition, the participants were asked to learn the words without the pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\nShow answer<\/summary>\nLab experiment (true)<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n 3. Children in a nursery were randomly allocated either to a condition where they were shown a film in which several adults behaved quite aggressively or to a condition in which they were shown a nature film. Both groups were then observed for aggressive behaviour.<\/p>\n\n\n\nShow answer<\/summary>\nField experiment (true)<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n 4. Male and female dreams were recorded at home by participants for a week and then analysed by a researcher who was testing the hypothesis that male dream content is more aggressive than female dream content.<\/p>\n\n\n\nShow answer<\/summary>\nField non-experiment<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n 5. People attending a health clinic and who were fearful of motorway driving were given several sessions of anxiety reduction therapy involving simulated motorway driving. A control group was formed by people on a waiting list who had only recently applied for therapeutic help with the same problem. The therapy participants were significantly less fearful of motorway driving after a three-month period than the control group.<\/p>\n\n\n\nShow answer<\/summary>\nField quasi<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n 6. People who had recently experienced a post-traumatic stress disorder were asked by a psychological researcher to undergo a battery of psycho-motor test trials. Compared with non-stressed participants the performed significantly worse.<\/p>\n\n\n\nShow answer<\/summary>\nLab non-experiment<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n 7. Psychology students were invited to volunteer for a research study. Because the researcher did not want participants from one condition to discuss the procedure with participants in the other, he asked students from one course to detect stimuli under stressful conditions and students from the other course to do the same task under non-stressful conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\nShow answer<\/summary>\nLab quasi<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n Exercise 5.2<\/h3>\n\n\n\nSelect True or False for each item to test your understanding of quasi-experiments and non-experiments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n |