PSYC 201W Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Convenience Sampling
4 Apr 2018
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Control techniques carried out at the beginning of the experiment. Matching: matching: using nay variety of techniques for equating participants on one or more variables, matching variable: the extraneous variable used in matching, groups can be equated on the matching variable. Matching by yoked control: yoked control: a matching technique that matches participants on the basis of the temporal sequence of administering an event, each control participants is yoked to an experimental participant. When the experimental participant engages in a behaviour and receives an outcome, the same outcome is given to the control participant: the control participant cannot effect the situation but they receive the consequences of the experimental subject"s behaviour. Study questions 2: list and define each of the matching control techniques discussed. Deception: giving the participants a bogus rationale for the study, all participants should be told the same thing. Control of experimenter effects: experimenter effects: the unintentional biasing effects that can be exerted by the experimenter.
