Social Practical

• What was the aim?

  To investigate gender difference in obedience levels of teenagers aged 16-17
• What was the null hypothesis?

  there will be no difference in obedience levels of different genders of the age 16-17
• What was the alternate hypothesis?

  There will be a difference in obedience levels of different genders
• What was an example of a closed question we used?


  “Do you ted to follow trends such as clothes and social media?” with answer options: Yes, No, Maybe
• What was an example of an open question we used?

  “What would you do if your parents asked you to clean your room bit your parents were having a party and you wanted to go?”
• What was an example of a rating question?

  “How easy do you find it to make descisions independently on a scale of 1-10?”
• What was the size and gender difference of our sample?

  40 ppts

  20 male

  20 female
• How old were our sample?

  Ages 16-17
• What was the procedure?

  1.Create a questionnaire

  2.Send it out to people we know aged 16-17

  3.Analysed data for each question

  4.for closed questions we added up how many males and females chose each answer

  5. for open, we calculated the most common themes and average answer for males and females

  6. Rating scales, we calculated mean, mode, median and range
• What was the conclusion?

  No major difference between males and females aged 16-17.
• Give 2 strengths of the study:

  1.Ethics: results were confidential- no demand characteristics

  2.Reliability: standardised- same questions given to everyone
• Give 2 weaknesses of the study

  1.Generalisability: cultural bias towards ppts from Scarborough and only aged 16-17

  2.validity: social desirability- what they think is an acceptable answer rather than what is true