RM lab experiments

Question 1

practical advantages

Answer 1

• attractive to funding bodies due to scientific nature
  -can easily conduct the experiment as the respondents come to them, so they dont have to travel
  -agree scale

Question 2

practical disadvantages

Answer 2

-small scale
-time consuming
-cannot be used to study the past

Question 4

ethical advantages

Answer 4

if informed consent is given, no deception is involved

Question 5

ethical disadvantages

Answer 5

many experiments often conceal the real aims of research
-informed consent is not always fully given

Question 6

theoretical advantage

Question 7

theoretical disadvantages

Answer 7

lack of validity due to ‘hawthorne effect’
smal scale, often not representative