participant variables
What participant variables means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for AQA, OCR.
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Reference: AQA
Individual differences that are held constant with repeated measures but sit between the groups in an independent groups design and could produce the result on their own.
Individual differences that sit inside the comparison when different people are used in each condition.
Topics that use participant variables
- Scientific processes (AQA A-Level)
- Planning and conducting research (OCR A-Level)
Related terms
- Counterbalancing
- event sampling
- operationalisation
- order effects
- Random allocation
- representativeness
- time sampling
- Absenteeism and productivity
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