Psychology A-Level
behavioural category
What behavioural category means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of behavioural category
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Reference: OCR
Turns a vague construct into something two observers can agree on, and has to be observable, mutually exclusive and wide enough to cover what is likely to happen.
Topics that use behavioural category
- Planning and conducting research (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- confounding variables
- Counterbalancing
- directional and non-directional hypotheses
- ethical planning
- event sampling
- experimental control
- operationalisation
- order effects
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