Psychology A-Level
Experimental design: related and unrelated
What Experimental design: related and unrelated means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Experimental design: related and unrelated
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For a difference, whether the design was related (repeated measures or matched pairs) or unrelated (independent groups).
Topics that use Experimental design: related and unrelated
- Inferential testing (AQA A-Level)
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- Critical values, N and degrees of freedom
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- Null hypothesis and alternative hypothesis
- one tailed and two tailed tests
- Parametric assumptions
- Probability and chance
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