order effects
What order effects means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for AQA, OCR.
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Reference: AQA
Effects such as practice, fatigue and boredom that arise when the same people take part in every condition, which counterbalancing addresses.
Effects introduced by testing participants in both conditions, such as practice, fatigue, or boredom.
Topics that use order effects
- Scientific processes (AQA A-Level)
- Planning and conducting research (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Counterbalancing
- event sampling
- operationalisation
- participant variables
- Random allocation
- representativeness
- time sampling
- Absenteeism and productivity
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