Assess The Difference Between A Laboratory Settingting And A Field Setting

The difference between a laboratory setting and a field setting is that a laboratory setting takes place in a specific place where the researchers have control over most, if not all, aspects of the research such as being able to keep factors constant and control the variables how you want and when you want. A field setting takes place in a natural or real world setting and the researcher can manipulate the independent variable. The field setting has less variables that cant be held constant compared to the laboratory setting. One advantage to using a laboratory setting is having control and by having this control the researchers are able to accomplish higher internal validity. Higher internal validity allows the researcher to confidently assume that one of the variables does have a causal effect on the other variable. One disadvantage to using a laboratory setting is the limitation created by the artificial environment and this creates the concern for low external validity. External validity consists of the results from the study being generalized to the real world. One advantage to using a field

I would prefer this setting for obedience because I tend to think about the participants being children since the requests are coming from an authority figure. I feel children would be better to research in a laboratory setting versus a field setting because in a field setting there is less control and many other factors that could distract children. This would make it hard to make sure there is a clear causal effect between the wanted variables. In a laboratory setting you are able to control what the participant is doing, what they hear and what they see. The laboratory setting also increases the likelihood of of high internal validity which you would need to confidently say that when requested by authority figures the participants fulfilled the requests as of them in a timely