A-LevelPsychologyResearch methods9990/22 · May/June 2020 · Q52 Marks
At the start of the study by Bandura et al. (aggression), the children were scored numerically on their behaviour in the nursery school.
- (a)Explain one advantage of scoring behavioural data in this way.[2]
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- [1] Scoring numerically makes the data objective; [1] so the researchers could be confident about the aggression categories (link); [1] The data could be analysed statistically; [1] so the data could be used to calculate mean numbers of aggressive acts in each category (link);
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