Lab experiments

• Labatory experiments


  Experiments done in a lab which can be controlled
• describe the method

  • quantitive
  • unlikley representitive
  • unlikley gain verstehen
  • reliable
  • unlikley generalisable
  • positivits
• practixel strength

  • attrract funding
  • dont gave to travel like in a field experiment
• practicle limitations

  • society is complex phenomenon
  • cant stufy the past
  • only study samples
• how can practicle limitations be overcome limits

  • pick a new research method such as questionaires
• ethical strengths

  • most seek to gain informed consent
• ethical limits

  • deceptions and lack of informed consent
  • hawthorne effect
  • free will
  • lab experiments dont involve real pupils
• how xan ethical limitations be overcome

  • make sure consent is involved
  • no deception
• theoretical strengths

  • positivism- controlled conditions, objectice knowlede
• theoreitcal limitations


  interpretivism- human behavior cant be explained

  lack external validity

  unrepresentitive
• how can theoretical limits be ovefocme

  • chise another method
• milgram

  • did studies of obidence and lied to his participant and shock learners
• slatin 


  examined wheteher teahcer ideas avout pupils of different social classes