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Experimental design — AQA & OCR GCSE Psychology Definition

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GCSE Psychology · key term

Experimental design

Definition

The way participants are organised in relation to the conditions of an experiment.

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How each exam board covers it

AQA GCSE Psychology · 8182

Paper 1

An experimental design determines who takes part in each condition. The three designs make different compromises between controlling differences between people and avoiding the effects of completing a task more than once.
Revise: Quantitative and Qualitative Research and Experimental Designs

AQA Psychology past papers

OCR GCSE Psychology · J203

Paper 1, Paper 2

Experimental design describes how participants are organised across those conditions.

Related key terms

Counterbalancing
Order effect
Random allocation
Reliability
Repeated measures design

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Revise: Experimental Designs

OCR Psychology past papers

Demand characteristic

Demand characteristics

Dependent variable

Experimental method

Independent groups design