Social Practical

Question 1

Aim

Answer 1

• To see whether age has an effect on obedience scores

Question 2

Participants

Answer 2

• 12 participants
• 6 adults and 6 teenagers
• All over 16

Question 3

Procedure

Answer 3

• Used opportunity sampling by asking family and friends over the age of 16 to see if they were willing to fill in a questionnaire consisting of closed, open and ranked scale questions
• Examples of the questions:
  If an older family member asked you to go buy them a juice from the shops, how would you behave:
  a) Go to the shops
  b) Ask why they want you specifical to go and not them if the answer is good enough you will go
  c) Refuse their request
  Explain you reasoning to the question above
  From a scale of 1-5 how likely are you likely to obey their request
• The questionaries was sent by text and in person and most participants filled their questionnaire at home

Question 4

Finding (Quantitative)

Answer 4

• The obedience scores were similar between teenagers and adults

Question 5

Finding (Qualitative)

Answer 5

• The teenagers’ answer had the themes of age, necessity, moral code, self interest and authority
• The adults’ answer had the themes of culture, necessity, moral code, authority figure and self interest
• The themes in their answers were fairly similar

Question 6

Results

Answer 6

• Adults were slightly more obedient overall compared to teenagers as their had a higher average obedient score by 0.6

Question 7

One strength of the practical

Answer 7

• The study was more generalizable
• Used male and females therefore higher population validity

Question 8

One weakness of the practical

Answer 8

• The study had low validity
• Some participants knew about the true aim of the study

Question 9

Improvements

Answer 9

• Made participants fill the questionnaire in the same experiment
• Increase control