When each separate groups of participants experience single separate conditions of an experiment
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What is a Repeated Measures design?
When each participants experiences all conditions of an experiment
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What is a upside of a Repeated Measures experiment?
It guarantees that differences in comparing two different groups of people are not present since each participant experiences both conditions
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What is a downside of a Repeated Measures experiment?
It is likely that participants will discover the aims of the study and as such will confound the results
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What is a Matched Pairs design?
Participants are paired/grouped based on variables relevant to the study (e.g. IQ for a memory test) and then each participant from a pair/group experiences a separate condition
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What is Unstructured Observation?
A method wherein a researcher simply writes down what they see, usually used on small groups
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What is Structured Observation?
A method wherein a researcher observes and quantifies data according to a predetermined list of behaviours and sampling methods, used on large groups
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What is continuous recording?
A key feature of unstructured observation; all instances of a behaviour are recorded
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What is event sampling?
Counting the number of times a specific behaviour occurs
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What is time sampling?
Recording behaviour in a pre-established time frame e.g. making a note of a subject's actions every 30 seconds
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What is a Repeated Measures design?
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When each participants experiences all conditions of an experiment
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