Psychology
Read the following 2 scenarios and answer each part:
1. A drug company is advertising a new drug that helps people recover from jet lag faster. You are skeptical so you conduct an experiment to test their claim. In your experiment, 100 people are flown from San Francisco to Tokyo. During the flight, half the participants are given the drug companyâs new drug. The other half of the participants are given a placebo (i.e., sugar pill) during the flight. Six hours after they land, all subjects are asked to rate how sleepy and disoriented they feel.
A. Variables (measured/manipulated)
B. Variable levels
C. Research method
D. Research question (descriptive/causal)
E. Operational definitions
2. A manufacturing plant hired an industrial psychologist to determine whether or not lighting conditions make a difference in worker productivity. The study required that employees work under three different levels of illumination during a month-long investigation of worker productivity.
A. Develop a clear research question,
B. Identify variables that might be studiedâi.e., a possible independent variable and dependent variable if the study is experimental, or measured variable(s) if the study is non-experimental,
C. Operationalize the variables.
Psychology
Read the following 2 scenarios and answer each part:
1. A drug company is advertising a new drug that helps people recover from jet lag faster. You are skeptical so you conduct an experiment to test their claim. In your experiment, 100 people are flown from San Francisco to Tokyo. During the flight, half the participants are given the drug companyâs new drug. The other half of the participants are given a placebo (i.e., sugar pill) during the flight. Six hours after they land, all subjects are asked to rate how sleepy and disoriented they feel.
A. Variables (measured/manipulated)
B. Variable levels
C. Research method
D. Research question (descriptive/causal)
E. Operational definitions
2. A manufacturing plant hired an industrial psychologist to determine whether or not lighting conditions make a difference in worker productivity. The study required that employees work under three different levels of illumination during a month-long investigation of worker productivity.
A. Develop a clear research question,
B. Identify variables that might be studiedâi.e., a possible independent variable and dependent variable if the study is experimental, or measured variable(s) if the study is non-experimental,
C. Operationalize the variables.
