Key Practical
Aim: To see whether there is a difference between gender and obedience
One-tailed Hypothesis: Two-tailed Hypothesis:
Boys will score higher on the There will be no significant Independent Variable: Gender
self reporting questionnaire, difference between boys and Dependent Variable: Obedience
thus will appear more girls scoring on the self (self-reporting questionnaire)
obedient than girls. reporting questionnaire.
Procedure: Evaluation
Sample:
20 6th form students
10 males and 10 females
Opportunity sample from the 6th form Replicated -
Lacks
common room procedure
generalisability -
standardised, 10
age, school and
Questionnaire: mins, alone and
ethnocentric.
19 closed questions about obedience in silence. The
Didn’t eliminate
9 of them filler questions same
psych students
Closed question example: Do you wear questionnaire
and so they
your lanyard around school at all times? was used and so
could try and
1 open question about cheating on a test. conclusions can
guess the aims of
be drawn and
the experiment.
1. Participants given a consent form compared.
Questionnaires
2. Each participant had 10 minutes to Internal validity
(self-report) has
complete it in a silent room and - filler question
social
independently so ppts cannot
desirability -
3. Participants debriefed guess aims and
people could lie.
4. Results for quantative data - mean act normally.
5. Results for qualitative data - thematic
analysis
Improvement:
1. Use students from other 6th forms to
increase generalisability and vary ages.
2. Check for psychology students before
hand to get rid of extraneous variables
Findings:
that could reduce the validity of the
Mean score for men higher than mean score
experiment.
for women meaning men are more obedient
than women.
Aim: To see whether there is a difference between gender and obedience
One-tailed Hypothesis: Two-tailed Hypothesis:
Boys will score higher on the There will be no significant Independent Variable: Gender
self reporting questionnaire, difference between boys and Dependent Variable: Obedience
thus will appear more girls scoring on the self (self-reporting questionnaire)
obedient than girls. reporting questionnaire.
Procedure: Evaluation
Sample:
20 6th form students
10 males and 10 females
Opportunity sample from the 6th form Replicated -
Lacks
common room procedure
generalisability -
standardised, 10
age, school and
Questionnaire: mins, alone and
ethnocentric.
19 closed questions about obedience in silence. The
Didn’t eliminate
9 of them filler questions same
psych students
Closed question example: Do you wear questionnaire
and so they
your lanyard around school at all times? was used and so
could try and
1 open question about cheating on a test. conclusions can
guess the aims of
be drawn and
the experiment.
1. Participants given a consent form compared.
Questionnaires
2. Each participant had 10 minutes to Internal validity
(self-report) has
complete it in a silent room and - filler question
social
independently so ppts cannot
desirability -
3. Participants debriefed guess aims and
people could lie.
4. Results for quantative data - mean act normally.
5. Results for qualitative data - thematic
analysis
Improvement:
1. Use students from other 6th forms to
increase generalisability and vary ages.
2. Check for psychology students before
hand to get rid of extraneous variables
Findings:
that could reduce the validity of the
Mean score for men higher than mean score
experiment.
for women meaning men are more obedient
than women.
