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Standardised Instructions - GCSE Psychology Definition

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Standardised instructions are a set of clear, uniform directions given to all participants in a psychological study to ensure everyone knows exactly what to do. This helps make sure that the study is fair and that the results are reliable.

By using the same instructions for everyone, researchers can be more confident that any differences in the study’s outcomes are due to the experiment itself and not because of different ways instructions were given. This is important in GCSE Psychology because it helps improve the validity of the research findings.

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Raj joined Save My Exams in 2024 as a Senior Content Creator for Psychology & Sociology. Prior to this, she spent fifteen years in the classroom, teaching hundreds of GCSE and A Level students. She has experience as Subject Leader for Psychology and Sociology, and her favourite topics to teach are research methods (especially inferential statistics!) and attachment. She has also successfully taught a number of Level 3 subjects, including criminology, health & social care, and citizenship.

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