PSYCHOLOGY
PSYCHOLOGY – Approaches to Psychology Mrs. Imborek
“INDEPENDENT/DEPENDENT VARIABLES”
Directions: Given the following hypothesis, pick out the independent variable, and the dependent variable.
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Independent Variable: This is the variable that the experimenter controls.
Dependent Variable: This is what results from the experimenter varying or changing the independent variable.
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1. X amount of sleeping pills helps the otherwise healthy person with insomnia to sleep better.
a. Independent: the medicine/sleeping pills
b. Dependent: # of people that slept better with/without sleeping pills
2. Individuals will respond more to a person in uniform than to a person not in uniform.
3. Violent behavior observed in early childhood will cause individuals to become violent as adults.
4. Tylenol will improve lower back pain in individuals more than a placebo.
5. Men who lift weights are less likely to suffer sports related injuries than those who do not.
6. Females that take a multivitamin are less likely to have children with birth defects than females that do not take a multivitamin.
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