Field Experiments

Question 1

Experimental group

Answer 1

• group who are the subjects

Question 2

Control group

Answer 2

• group who is compared to the experimental group

Question 3

IV

Answer 3

• thing you change to measure the effects

Question 4

DV

Answer 4

• thing you measure in relation to what you’re testing

Question 5

Rosenthal + Jacobson

Answer 5

• studied in a classroom in 1960s, IQ tested a class of pupils
• told teachers covertly that some were “spurters”
• returned a year later and found “spurters” had made the most progress
• labelled pupils positively, interested positively, and encouraged them. Self-Fulfilling prophecy occured

Question 6

Rosenthal (1973)

Answer 6

• ‘pseudopatient’, conducted in 12 California mental health hospitals
• heading voice, diagnosed with Schizophrenia
• once in hospital, stopped complaining about hearing voices
• hospital staff treated them all as if still suffering from Schizophrenia
• label ‘schizophrenic’ that led staff to treat them this way, not their behaviour

Question 7

PET analyse - Rosenthal + Jacobson

Answer 7

Practical- easier to gain access to natural environment, vulnerable to extraneous variables
Ethical- debrief, limited harm, deception
Theoretical- reliability, extraneous variable

Question 8

PET analyse - Rosenhan (1973)

Answer 8

Practical-real life environment, complex problems
Ethical- confidentiality + informed consent, deception
Theoretical- lacks versthen and depth, can investigate label and impact they have