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Question 68

Study Stimulus

Commuter Etiquette on Public Transit

Researchers want to investigate how passengers negotiate personal space and display polite or inconsiderate behaviours in a crowded subway carriage. Some commuters display highly considerate behaviours, such as moving their bags to make space or offering their seats to standing passengers. Others display inconsiderate behaviours, such as blocking doors, playing music aloud, or occupying multiple seats. Psychologists plan to use structured naturalistic observation to record these interactions and determine the frequency of these behaviours.

Explain how two different factors could influence the inter-rater reliability of the observers in this transit study.

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Research methods and techniques Questions

  1. A Level
  2. /Psychology
  3. /Research methods and techniques

644 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Research methods and techniques. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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