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An educational charity has developed a new interactive tablet application called 'EmpathyQuest' designed to improve emotional vocabulary in young children.

There is a proposal to carry out an experiment to compare the effects of using the new application and reading traditional picture books on emotional vocabulary in Year 1 children (aged 5–6).

A sample of 300 Year 1 children and their classroom teachers is available for the experiment. Parents and headteachers have given consent for the children to participate.

The experiment will take place over a 6-week period. Data on the children's emotional vocabulary will be gathered from the classroom teachers using a self-report method.

Design the experiment to investigate whether using the new interactive tablet application ('EmpathyQuest') leads to a greater increase in emotional vocabulary in young children, compared with reading traditional picture books.

In your answer you will gain credit for providing appropriate details of the following:

  • the type of experimental design, with justification
  • a self-report method of data collection, with justification
  • how to control one extraneous variable, with justification as to why this would need to be controlled.
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  1. A Level
  2. /Psychology
  3. /Experimental method

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