PSYC19H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: David Blaine, Computer Mouse
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Chapter 6: can willpower be strengthened? (part 2) Australian psychologists, meg oaten and ken cheng recruited people who wanted to improve one specific aspect of their lives and could be given direct help in that area. Half got the help immediately, and the others served as a control group and received the help later. This procedure, called the waiting-list control group, was a good way of making sure that the test group and the control group had similar goals and desires. Everyone was offered same service, but some waited for it, and during that time they took the same tests and measures as the ones who were given exercises to strengthen their willpower. One experiment involved people who all wanted to improve their physical fitness but had(cid:374)"t (cid:271)ee(cid:374) (cid:396)egula(cid:396) e(cid:454)e(cid:396)(cid:272)ise(cid:396)s. Some immediately received a membership in a gym and met with one of the experimenters to form a plan for regular workouts.
