A-LevelPsychologyResearch methods9990/23 · Oct/Nov 2019 · Q23 Marks
A study aims to find out whether boys and girls differ in the amount of time that they talk.
- (a)Write an operationalised directional (one-tailed) hypothesis for this study.[2]
- (b)Write a null hypothesis for this study.[1]
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- [2] (a) Males will talk for longer/more often/for more minutes per day than females (both IV and DV operationalised).
- [1] (a) Females will talk more than males ('more' is not operationalised, only one variable operationalised).
- [1] (b) There will be no difference in the amount of talking between male and female participants.
- [1] (b) Any difference in talking between male and female is due to chance.
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