PSY426H1 Lecture Notes - Ego Depletion, Anagram, Dependent And Independent Variables
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Experiment 3 takes aleternative view the suggestion here is that it is adaptive to up early on unsolvable problems b/c it would be a waste of time and energy otherwise. For this study to argue that ego depletion has a negative effect, it was neccesary to show some decline in tast performance. This study was designed to show that ego depletion can impair performance on solvable tasks. Because ego deplection controlling emtions this study some particitpatnts were asked to watch an emotionally evocative video and stifle any emotional reaction they might have procedure. Half of the participants in each condition saw a funny video, the other half in each condition saw a sad video. After the video asked to help the instructer collect prelimanry data for future reaseah by completing an anagram task where they had to unscramble 13 sets of letters.
