Exploration

What do you need to include in your exploration?

• Details of your research design and participants

• Materials used in your experiment and procedure

• Variables you attempted to control for

• All of the above

What are some relevant variables to control?

• Noise

• Age of participants

• Location of experiment

• The type of chairs participants are sitting on

Your materials section should be in paragraph format.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Your materials section should be written in dot point format!

Your procedure should be described in a step by step manner, starting with what you did first in the experiment.

• True

• False

What is one strength of using an independent group sample design?

Answer explanation

No order effects, less time-consuming, easier to conduct, lower drop out rate etc.

What did this student do well?

Through opportunity sampling, we obtained 34 participants (20 females; 14 males). The participants were 16-17 year old IB students at an international school who were in their humanities class at the time when we conducted our experiment. By having teachers provide their students, we were able to easily find participants. Opportunity sampling was the best for our use as it was convenient in terms of finding participants under time constraints, and effective as we were able to collect all of our results in a short amount of time. Using a random group generator, we split our participants into two groups and randomly allocated a condition to each group. As a result, the structural processing condition had 9 females and 8 males, and the semantic processing condition had 11 females and 6 males.

• Described the exact number of participants

• Described the sampling method

• Described the target population

• All of the above

When is your exploration checkpoint?

Answer explanation

Week 10 Monday!