Question 61 – Practical activities - OCR Psychology Questions

Keeping a steady hand under pressure

Clinical and occupational health researchers often investigate how environmental conditions affect the performance of medical practitioners. A research psychologist wants to investigate whether ambient room temperature affects the fine motor dexterity of junior doctors. Specifically, they want to compare performance in a cool room (17°C) versus a warm room (27°C). The study will be conducted in a major teaching hospital with 300 junior doctors on the staff directory.

Explain how you would conduct a study using the laboratory experimental method to investigate whether ambient room temperature affects the fine motor dexterity of junior doctors. Justify your decisions as part of your explanation.

You must refer to:

how you would use systematic sampling to obtain 30 participants from the hospital staff directory
the experimental design you would use in this study
how you would operationalise the dependent variable to obtain quantitative data
the control of one extraneous variable.

You should use your own experience of practical activities to inform your response.

Keeping a steady hand under pressure

You must refer to:

how you would use systematic sampling to obtain 30 participants from the hospital staff directory
the experimental design you would use in this study
how you would operationalise the dependent variable to obtain quantitative data
the control of one extraneous variable.

You should use your own experience of practical activities to inform your response.

Practical activities

Question 42

Practical activities

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Practical activities

Question 42

Practical activities Questions

Practical activities

Question 42

Practical activities Questions