Practical

Question 1

Practical

Answer 1

• Alternative (2)
  There will be a difference in the gender of drivers depending on the car size
• (1)
  More makes drive big cars and more females small cars
• Directional
  Males have big cars, female small cars
• null hypothesis
  There will be no relationship between gender and car size other than that which may happen by chance

Question 2

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Answer 2

• Operationalisation of dv, cars including vw golf and ford focus are top small, ford mondeo and vh bottom large. Judgement sheet
• collecting data, naturalistic obs along street in small village, lots of traffic during day. Make way to obs point, walk up and down of rd noting the info, use judgement sheet

Question 3

Practical

Answer 3

• Pilot study used to operationalise variables. No changes made
• pen and pad and judge sheet used
• tally chart to collect data
• ethics, good - confidentiality and p’s expect to be seen, bad - no informed consent, right to withdraw or debrief

Question 4

Practical

Answer 4

• chi squared, nominal, observed value is 8.56, critical value is p

Question 5

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Answer 5

• Lacked validity, subjective judgement, drivers may not have a choice as to what car they drive
• valid, naturalistic, small/large sheet
  Lacked reliability, bad controls, extraneous variables
• reliable, detail, judgement sheet
• lacks generalisability, sample not chosen, opportunity biased, 10am = retired, younger peeps
• lacks credibility, only lasted 15 min
• credible, naturalistic, get behave naturally as they don’t know

Question 6

Aim

Answer 6

To see if people gender influences whether they drive a small or large car