Question 1 Report
Researchers want to study compulsive checking behaviour. They ask volunteers to keep a phone diary for seven days and record every occasion on which they check that a door is locked more than once.
(a) Describe how the researchers have operationalised compulsive checking. [1]
(b) Identify one demand characteristic that could affect the diary entries. [1]
(c) Evaluate one strength of collecting behaviour in participants’ everyday homes. [1]
(a) It is measured as each recorded occasion of checking a locked door more than once [1] (b) Participants may change their checking behaviour because they know it is being studied / may record what they think is expected [1] (c) It has higher ecological validity because the behaviour is recorded in a natural setting [1]
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