Iden Advant Disadvan Conclu

tify ages tages sion in

relatio
n to
the
experi
ment

1 Environment/ Quiet No Could be hard A quiet

setting room, distractions to find a totally room would
prefer quiet room be better to
Plain get more
walls accurate
With results as
few people
distracti usually
ons study in
quiet
environmen
ts

2 Sampling Teenage Easy to find Brains still Will make

rs at people, developing, the results
about accurate
(14-15 experiment Possibly could because its
years of mostly made study better in usually
age) to help different ways students
teenagers (e.g. auditory around this
learners) age who
like to try to
listen to
music as
they study

3 Control of Loose Less to think Possibly could Shouldn’t

extraneous because about while make people cause much
variables the doing the uncomfortable problems
extraneo experiment apart from
us and more that the test
variable accurate as subject may
s will usually experience
mostly when people mild
be based are studying discomfort
on the there would with noise
person be factors in levels or
(e.g. if their unlikable
this environment music
person they
were couldn’t
normall control
y
studying
with
music
would it
be at
 this
volume?

4 Independent Whether
variables or not h
person
likes the
music
playing

whether
or not
the
person
likes the
story
being
told

5 Variables Operationalis
ation

6 Control of
situational
variables

Procedure Is a
standard
ized
experim
ent.

Order Randomisatio
effects n?
Counterbalan
cing?

Demand Single-blind
characteris techniques?
tics Double-blind
Investigat techniques?
or effect

7 Control of Random
participant allocation?
variables
8 Ethics No harm to subjects

Will not affect them

in the future