Question

Experiments are most common in which discipline?

A. Criminal Justice

B. Criminology

C. Sociology

D. Psychology

Answer 1

From the options given, the discipline that would implement experiments more in their research methodology would be (D) psychology.

Sociology’s research methodology tends to fall into the category of case studies, direct and participatory observations, and surveys. The same can be said for criminology and criminal justice. Several sub-fields of psychology tend to use experiments to determine the cause and effect relationship between two variables or more.

Answer 2

I would say in psychology as I know that rats are often used for psychological experiments for example to observe their response to different stimula such as food or finding their way through a maze and then the results can be correlated to human behaviour.