A-LevelPsychologyResearch methods9990/42 · May/June 2021 · Q718 Marks
The style of a practitioner's clothing, the way they dress, can influence what patients think of them.
- (a)Design a study gathering qualitative data to investigate why patients prefer one practitioner style of dress to another.[10]
- (b)Explain the psychological and methodological evidence on which your study is based.[8]
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- [10] Design a study showing evidence of design features appropriate to the named method (e.g., experiments, observations, questionnaires/interviews), including specific features like type, IV, DV, controls, experimental design for experiments, or setting, response categories, sampling frame, and number of observers for observations, or example questions, scoring/rating scale, and analysis of responses for questionnaires/interviews. Also include general features of research methodology: sampling technique and sample, type of data, ethics, reliability, validity, data analysis. The named method must include qualitative data.
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