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Name That Design Essay

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Name that Design

Purpose: To ascertain students understanding of research designs, IVs, & DVs.

Instructions: This is a group activity that you will start in class and complete at home. For each of the following, note, whether the research design used is an experiment, a quasi-experiment, or a correlational approach and why. If a study is an experiment, identify the independent variable and the dependent variable. Please type your answers in complete sentences.

1. To assess the effect of caffeine on persistence researchers assign their participants to a group that gets a non-caffeinated beverage or a group with a caffeinated beverage. They measure how much time the participants spend on a difficult puzzle.

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8. In exploring the certainty with which people hold their beliefs a researcher proposes that those with more information about the topic will be more certain about their belief about that topic. Half of the participants are given 20 facts about a topic and are asked about their belief about that topic. The other half of the participants are given 5 facts about a topic and are asked about the strength of their belief about that topic.

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NAME THAT DESIGN

1) This is an experiment because they are manipulating the amount of caffeine given to the participants. The dependant variable is the time spent on the puzzle. The independent variable is the caffeine.

2) This is a correlation approach because there is no actual manipulation of the independent variable; they are just looking at a naturally occurring event.

3) This is also a correlation approach because there is no actual manipulation of the variables.

4) This is a quasi-experiment because they selected variables so they cannot manipulate the outcome.

5) This is also a quasi-experiment because they selected the variables but they can’t really control the outcome of the experiment.

6) This is an experiment because it is in a controlled environment where the variables and the situation are manipulated. The dependant variable is the preference of the participants. The

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