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What Do Your Remember Best: Experiment Which do you think you'll remember best - pictures, sounds, or printed words? Why? Restate this belief as a hypothesis. Now try the online experiment. - What was the independent variable?
- What was the dependent variable?
- How was the dependent variable operationally defined?
- How many pictures did you recall correctly? Printed words? Spoken words?
- Did the results support your hypothesis? Explain.
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Speedy Color Detection When you arrive at this site please read the on-screen instructions and do the experiment for 3 different colors. When you are finished please answer the questions below. - What are the results of your experiment?
- What is the independent variable?
- What is the dependent variable?
- How would you operationally define the dependent variable?
- If you were in charge of this experiment, how might you use counterbalancing to make the experiment better?
- Can you think of any potential confounding variables that may have influenced your results?
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Informed Consent Please scroll down and select an experiment to participate in (you don't actually need to do the experiment, but you can if you want to). - Did the experimenters provide some sort of informed consent information?
- According to the APA guidelines of informed consent (pg. 70), is the informed consent information thorough and appropriate? Explain.
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Eye Spy Please select an animal and watch the corresponding video clip to get a sense of naturalistic observation. - What are the advantages of using naturalistic observation?
- What are the disadvantages?
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