Questionnaire on Age and Stereotyping Social Dress Styles
1 Questionnaire on Age and Stereotyping Social Dress Styles
Contents:
Abstract Pg 3
Background Pg 4
Hypothesis Pg 5 • Aim • Hypothesis • Null Hypothesis
Methodology Pg 6 • Method • Design • Participants • Procedure • Controls • Materials • Ethics • Measurements and Analysis
Results Pg 8 • Descriptive statistics • Inferential statistics • Meaning of results
Evaluation Pg 10 • Strengths and Weaknesses • Choices made • Suggestions
Appendices Pg 11
References Pg 14
Abstract
This study is a self-report researching age in-relation to stereotyping social dress styles like Goth, Chav, Emo, Hoody and Urban. With the hypotheses that there will be a significant difference between the young and mature control groups’ questionnaire scores on the stereotyping social dress styles. The questionnaire was given to 30 participants of both genders, participants aged 16-30 years for the Young Group and participants aged 31-100 years for the Mature Group. This study concluded that stereotyping still occurs in society and the mature group stereotype slightly more, however there in no significant difference between the amount or level of stereotyping done by each age range. As the null hypothesis was rejected as the critical value was higher than the U value.
Background
This experiment studies the social approach, the social approach to psychology is:
“The branch of psychology that studies the effect of social variables on individual behaviour, attitudes, perceptions, and motives; also studies group and intergroup phenomena”[1]
In the study by Harari and McDavid a set of children’s essays were distributed to a group of teachers for them to mark each with either a 'attractive' or 'unattractive' name as the author. Harari and McDavid chose to conduct this study as they believed that known literature was responsible for creating
Contents:
Abstract Pg 3
Background Pg 4
Hypothesis Pg 5 • Aim • Hypothesis • Null Hypothesis
Methodology Pg 6 • Method • Design • Participants • Procedure • Controls • Materials • Ethics • Measurements and Analysis
Results Pg 8 • Descriptive statistics • Inferential statistics • Meaning of results
Evaluation Pg 10 • Strengths and Weaknesses • Choices made • Suggestions
Appendices Pg 11
References Pg 14
Abstract
This study is a self-report researching age in-relation to stereotyping social dress styles like Goth, Chav, Emo, Hoody and Urban. With the hypotheses that there will be a significant difference between the young and mature control groups’ questionnaire scores on the stereotyping social dress styles. The questionnaire was given to 30 participants of both genders, participants aged 16-30 years for the Young Group and participants aged 31-100 years for the Mature Group. This study concluded that stereotyping still occurs in society and the mature group stereotype slightly more, however there in no significant difference between the amount or level of stereotyping done by each age range. As the null hypothesis was rejected as the critical value was higher than the U value.
Background
This experiment studies the social approach, the social approach to psychology is:
“The branch of psychology that studies the effect of social variables on individual behaviour, attitudes, perceptions, and motives; also studies group and intergroup phenomena”[1]
In the study by Harari and McDavid a set of children’s essays were distributed to a group of teachers for them to mark each with either a 'attractive' or 'unattractive' name as the author. Harari and McDavid chose to conduct this study as they believed that known literature was responsible for creating