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Does Music impact our emotions?, IV and DV justifications - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Participant variability: Sex, Age, Personal Beliefs, Established Connection With Sample, Medical Conditions, Diet.
      - Situational Variables: Equipment used, Researcher contextual cues, Time of day.
      - Constant variables: Human Error, Equipment error margin, Briefs and debriefs, Statistical and software analysis,
      - Effect on results: Participant Variability leads to variation in heart rate due to sex, age, medical conditions etc, and variation in emotional response due to the personal beliefs, culture etc. of participants. This would lead to a systematic error if the sample isn't diverse enough. Situational Variables primarily lead to intensified social desirability bias present in results due to the inherent pressures that may come from the random elements between tests. Constant Variables lead to an inevitable margin of error present in all experiments that is abated by the uses of processed data.
    - - Potential IV's: Music Genre, Lyrical Contents, Cultural Background, Music Volume, Participant Characteristics.
      - Potential DV's: Heart Rate, MRI Scan, Positive And Negative Affect Scale, Skin Conductance, Cortisal Levels.
  - - - Observational
        
        Benefits: Experimenter Bias is entirely absent, Data is taken from an uncontrolled environment.
        
        Detriments: Social desirability bias is at it's strongest, results are likely tampered with.
      - Qualitative
        
        Benefits: Detailed, clear information, incredibly cheap.
        
        Detriments: Inherently small sample size, Bias from participant traits very potent.
      - Experimental
        
        Benefits: Highly Control Over Extraneous Variables, Little/No Subject Bias, Easily Repeatable.
        
        Detriments: Cannot reflect the uncontrolled environments, which gives way to social desirability bias that may influence results, expensive and time consuming.
  - - - Justification: To be realistic, this sample is restricted to South Australia. To better represent the analysed population, samples will be taken from schools and areas with various backgrounds to ensure the participant's characteristics do not influence the results.
      - Potential Issues: South Australian or general Australian cultural presence, Spatial Bias due to areas being overwhelmingly urban, Bias due to sample representing mostly students.
    - - Justification: In the name of reflecting a potential sample, the area this sample is sourced from is restricted to Adelaide. To best represent the analysed population, a varied set of ages are used.
      - Potential Errors: Strong demographic and spatial bias from small sample area.
  - - - How?
        
        Before participants begin testing, they will be given a form detailing the events planned for the experiment in a concise manner and reminding them of their rights.
      - Why?
        
        Psychology sometimes requires individuals to be analysed in ways that they may find invasive, which would do undue harm to the individual. This is why informed consent is so important, since preventing undue harm is a fundamental of ethical guidelines in psychology.
    - - How?
        
        Participants will be sourced from large sample sizes in the hopes to find individuals passionate enough that
      - Why?
        
        It is inherently immoral to force an individual into an experiment as their lack of consent implies harm to the individual through the experiment.
    - - How?
        
        Participants will not have their names recorded, rather being noted by a number assigned to them, Ascending from 000 in increments of 1 for every test completed.
      - Why?
        
        In order to make participants feel safe in disclosing information honestly regardless of its content, psychology experiments are to be taken with an element anonymity.
    - - How?
        
        Using the experimental methods and trustworthy researchers, the potential for inaccurate reporting will be reduced.
      - Why?
        
        If researcher bias is allowed to influence the results of a psychology experiment, it can lead to inaccurate and potentially harmful conclusions.
    - - How?
        
        Participants will, at any time, be allowed to remove themselves from the experiment by walking out the door no questions asked.
      - Why?
        
        Psychology experiments may be more intensive than people would assume at first, therefore to properly maintain true consent individuals must be given the option to change their mind and depart
    - - How?
        
        After the experiment is finished, researchers will recap all participants involed.
      - Why?
        
        By ensuring factual information is communicated to participants, any hysteria about the events of the experiment can be dispelled, which should prevent undue harm to participants.