Psychology A-Level
participant and researcher effects
What participant and researcher effects means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for OCR.
Definition of participant and researcher effects
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Demand characteristics are cues that let participants work out the aim, social desirability is answering to look good, researcher/observer bias is subjective data interpretation, and researcher/observer effect(s) occur when the investigator's presence alters participant behaviour.
Topics that use participant and researcher effects
- Data recording, analysis and presentation (OCR A-Level)
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