A psychologist investigates whether posture affects performance on a visual-search task. Each adult completes one symbol-search task while seated and another while standing. The psychologist records the number of target symbols found by each adult in both conditions.
State the experimental design used in this study.
Give one strength of using this experimental design in this study.
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.