learning theories practical

• aimed to investigate differences in safe and unsafe road crossing, with and without children, at a set of traffic lights.
• the hypothesis was:

  there will be a significant difference in the number of safe crossing with children than without children, measured by counting the number of crossers with and without children, to put into a tally chart.
• it was an opportunity sample if 40 people. it was an observation of people in reigate.
• data was collected between 11:30 and 1:30. people were counted and observed for 10 minutes and both quantitative and qualitative data was collected to analyse.
• the chi-squared stats test was used.
• we found adults were more likely to cross safely with children than without.
• the practical was high in reliability due to standardised procedures.

  the study was high in ecological validity as it was a field study and looked at a naturally occurring behaviour.

  the study was low in generalisability as only people from reigate were involved on one day at one 10 minute interval.
• there were three observers in each group increasing interrater reliability
• there were three key themes from the thematic analysis, which were learning, attention, and no attention