Chapter 2: Practice Worksheet Experiment Independent Variable Dependent Variable Control Group Experimental Group Students watched a cartoon Watching cartoon with How funny you find Students who Students who either alone or with others others the cartoon watched the watched the cartoon and then rated how funny cartoon alone with others they found the cartoon to be. A comprehension test was Television Comprehension test Students who Students who studied given to students after they studied without with the television on had studied textbook the TV on material either in silence or with the television turned on. Some elementary school Telling the teachers Teachers that Teachers that were The child’s teachers were told that a the college education were not told told the student’s academic potential anything about child’s parents were college level of the student’s that the teacher parents had graduated the student’s graduates, and other teachers parents rated them as from college were not told anything about parents the students’ parents education level; they then rated the child’s academic potential. Workers at a company were Stress management Number of sick Group that did Group that did attend assigned to one of two training program days taken not attend the the stress conditions: One group training management training completed a stress management training program; another group of workers did not participate in the training. The number of sick days taken by these workers was examined for the two subsequent months. Students at a University were Interactive tablet Final exam grades Students who Students who used an split into two groups and computer used a interactive textbook each received a different text traditional on a tablet computer for a philosophy course. textbook to Once group received a study with traditional text book, while the other received an
Chapter 2: Practice Worksheet Experiment Independent Variable Dependent Variable Control Group Experimental Group Students watched a cartoon either alone or with others and then rated how funny they found the cartoon to be. Watching cartoon with others How funny you find the cartoon Students who watched the cartoon alone Students who watched the cartoon with others A comprehension test was given to students after they had studied textbook material either in silence or with the television turned on. Television Comprehension test Students who studied without the TV on Students who studied with the television on Some elementary school teachers were told that a child’s parents were college graduates, and other teachers were not told anything about the students’ parents education level; they then rated the child’s academic potential. Telling the teachers the college education level of the student’s parents The child’s academic potential that the teacher rated them as Teachers that were not told anything about the student’s parents Teachers that were told the student’s parents had graduated from college Workers at a company were assigned to one of two conditions: One group completed a stress management training program; another group of workers did not participate in the training. The number of sick days taken by these workers was examined for the two subsequent months. Stress management training program Number of sick days taken Group that did not attend the training Group that did attend the stress management training Students at a University were split into two groups and each received a different text for a philosophy course. Once group received a traditional text book, while the other received an Interactive tablet computer Final exam grades Students who used a traditional textbook to study with Students who used an interactive textbook on a tablet computer
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