A psychologist plans an experiment to investigate whether feedback from the researcher affects persistence while adults work on a difficult shape puzzle. The researcher has not yet decided what feedback to give or how persistence will be recorded.
Outline two precise feedback conditions that could be compared and a numerical measure of persistence for this experiment.
Explain how the scoring rule in your measure of persistence would allow another researcher to check the reliability of the measurement.
182 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 7.1 Planning Research, covering 7.1.1 Hypotheses, 7.1.2 Variables, 7.1.3 Experimental Designs, 7.1.4 Populations and Sampling, 7.1.5 Ethical issues, and 7.1.6 Dealing with ethical issues and BPS Code. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.