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The Design of a Psychological Experiment
Title: The Design of a Psychological Experiment
Category: Science & Technology / Biology
Details: Words: 483 | Pages: 2.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
The Design of a Psychological Experiment
Design of a Psychological Experiment
Problem: Suppose you are a psychologist who is interested in the effects of caffeine on the eye-hand coordination of students enrolled at UMCP. Design an experiment to test the hypothesis that caffeine enhances a student's ability to hit a baseball. Describe your experiment by answering the following questions:
1) What are the independent and dependent variables?
The independent variable would be the caffeine. The results of the students' hitting of the …showed first 75 words of 483 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 483 total…hitting a baseball are two very different skills. Landing a plane requires more skill and the side effects of caffeine which are not evident in the above experiment might show up in a pilot. Caffeine may cause some people to become nervous and shake and that would not help a pilot land a plane. The only way to find out would be to setup and experiment about the effects of caffeine on pilot landing planes.
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