PSYB01H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Bumper Sticker, Sport Utility Vehicle, Null Hypothesis
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In other words, its asking if a person"s direct experience of temperature (e. g. hot, average and cold) influences his or her attitudes and behaviours surrounding global warming. It has shown that in a study where participants had to hold either a hot cup or those who were putted in a warm room to determine its influences by temperature. It has shown that those who held a warm cup felt close to the experimenter. Those who were putted in the warm room found to be more focused when doing a task. The independent variable is the temperature: the dependent variable is the attitude toward global warming. Operationally defining the dv: measuring attitudes toward global warming. Self-report questions are useful because participants get to state their own views on global warming. If they other participants cannot simply give us a simple answer to these questions, they can simply tell researchers another acceptable answer of their own.
