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Worksheets29: OCR Sleep - Williams et al
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
Which theory did the study aim to support?
Activation synthesis theory
Eysenck's theory
Freud's theory
Social learning theory
Which method did the researchers use to investigate dreams and fantasies?
field experiment
lab experiment
observations
self-report (diaries)
What type of data did the study generate?
qualitative
quantitative
both
The dreams were coded and then given a score for what?
bizarreness
intelligence
interestingness
sensibleness
The three judges agreed on their bizarreness score for each report 80% of the time. This means the study had high _____________ validity
construct
ecological
inter-rater
What results did they find?
Dreams had higher bizarreness scores than fantasies
Fantasies had higher bizarreness scores than dreams
Both had high bizarreness scores
Both had low bizarreness scores
The sample had low population validity - click on all the reasons why.
There were only 12 of them
They were all students at Harvard University
There were two men and 10 women
They were all biopsychology students
The method is open to which kind of bias?
cultural bias
researcher bias
social desirability bias
questioning bias
Tick the problems with relying on people to write down their dreams and fantasies.
They might lie due to social desirability bias
They might not remember accurately
They might get embarrassed and leave details out
They might have added meaning to what they actually dreamed
Changing qualitative data into quantitative means the results may lack _________ validity.
construct
ecological
population
