Counterbalancing
What Counterbalancing means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for AQA, OCR.
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A procedure in which half the participants take the conditions in one order and half in the reverse, spreading order effects evenly across conditions.
A technique to mitigate order effects in repeated measures designs, typically using the ABBA method.
The control named for order effects, balancing them across conditions rather than removing them.
Topics that use Counterbalancing
- Scientific processes (AQA A-Level)
- Planning and conducting research (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- event sampling
- operationalisation
- order effects
- participant variables
- Random allocation
- representativeness
- time sampling
- Absenteeism and productivity
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