A psychologist investigates people’s preferences for personal space. Every participant has grown up in the same cultural community, but the psychologist claims that the findings apply to people in every culture. The psychologist predicts that people prefer a large personal space and includes only interview quotations that support this prediction in the research report. Explain two different sources of bias in this study.
173 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 7.3 Analysing Research, covering 7.3.1 Types of Data, 7.3.2 Measures of central tendency, 7.3.3 Other descriptive statistics, 7.3.4 Tables, Charts and Graphs, 7.3.5 Reliability, 7.3.6 Validity and effects on validity, and 7.3.7 Sources of bias. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.