Research issues

Cards (4)

  • Extrenuos variables
    When something else influences the DV
    e.g. poor lighting, age of pps
  • Confounding variables
     Another IV variable is created due to chance, e.g someone on the way to experiment saw a celeb
  • Demand characteristics
    Pps try to work out what is going on, the clues that give them what's going on are the demand characteristics
  • Why are demand characteristics a problem?
    They can change how pps behave