Psychology A-Level
Natural experiment
What Natural experiment means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Natural experiment
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The independent variable varies for reasons outside the researcher's control and would have varied anyway, as in Rutter's Romanian orphan study.
Topics that use Natural experiment
- Research methods (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Closed questions
- co-variables
- Coding
- content analysis
- Control versus realism
- Correlation coefficients and their sign
- Covert observation
- field experiment
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