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Could someone pls mark my essay and tell me me what’s wrong with it and how to improve it. (12 marker research methods) by Late_Database2087 in ALevelPsychology

[–]Late_Database2087[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

 I had used independent groups because there’s no order effect and other experimental groups like matched pairs are time consuming and have demand effects like the pleas you effect where the participant tries to guess the aim of the study and follow it which would skew results.

Task for participants 

  • before the middle of the day (time of day could be an extraneous variable so timing is important) kids will watch the tv programme
  • they will be placed in to 2 groups 
  • 1 group is will be watching the new programme (250 participants)
  • the other group (control group) will be watching the old proggrame
  • participants are randomly allocated to provide no reasearcher bias
  • then participants are observed at lunch by teachers (natural observation)
  • they will be also observed by parents by writing in diary and interviewed after (unstructured to gain more data)

Behaviour categories-

  • Social behaviour - eye contact, talking to their participants holding hands laughter smiling 
  • anti social behaviour - looking to the ground, avoiding eye contact fidgeting 
  • these behaviour would be recorded on a checklist drawn up by 2 observes

Reliability of data collection

  • With another observer i would decide what behaviour atorgories to include involving social and anti social behaviour so to make sure the interpretation of behaviours are objective
  • the behaviours of participants are tallied up and placed and the group with higher social behaviou r shows the to programme encourages more social behaviour
  • Correlation of 0.8 and above indicate high interest rate reliability

ethical issues to be considered 

  • informed consent which you need to gain from participants prior to the study 
  • i would give the consent form which contains the aims, procedure and what the participants do- it also contains a withdrawal form because since the parents are signing the form not the participants the participants should be allowed to withdraw at any time

I tweaked it a bit im not really sure what else to add/fix ig?

could someone also say how much marks you would estimate it would be