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A-LevelPsychologyResearch Methods (Experimental Designs and Controls)May/June 2020Paper 2 Q89 Marks

Richard is conducting an experiment to investigate whether daydreams are affected by the type of background noise. He has two groups who are both given a boring task in a room. For one group there are children laughing outside the open window. For the other group there are adults talking loudly in the corridor. Different participants are used in each group.

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This structured question appeared in the Cambridge A-Level Psychology (9990) May/June 2020 examination, Paper 2 Variant 1. It tests the topic of Research Methods (Experimental Designs and Controls) and is worth 9 marks.

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