Name:________________________ Period: ______ Identifying Scientific Variables For the following experiments identify the three variables for each experiment and what the experimental and control groups should look like. 1) TQ: Does the type of fertilizer affect the number of flowers on a rose bush? Scenario: Different rose bushes are grown in a greenhouse for two months. The scientist is interested in seeing how fertilizer affects the growth of the plants. The number of flowers on each bush
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spectrum of ideas‚ I agree with the following belief: “The folk are compatibilists about free will.” While there are‚ of course‚ incompatibilists and indeterminists‚ for the most part‚ the general population consists of compatibilists. Now‚ I know experimental philosophy has a problem with the use of generalizations without actual statistics‚ but throughout this paper‚ I will explain exactly why the world revolves in a generally compatibilist manner. Firstly‚ to speak of compatibilism‚ you’d have
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Good Nights Sleep Sleep is often the first thing people give up when life gets busy. People often forget what roles sleep play in our lives. In humans it has been demonstrated that metabolic activity of the brain decreases after 24 hours of sustained wakefulness. Lack of sleep can result in decreased immune system function‚ decreased body temperature as well as a decreased release of growth hormone. Variable heart rate increases can also be a sign of sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation
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studies deal in numbers‚ logic and objective stance. Quantitative research usually utilizes descriptive or experimental methods (Rakap‚ Snyder & Pasia‚ 2014). The descriptive method determines association between variables and the experimental method determines connectedness. Descriptive research is thought to be easier to do and is less suited to explain a connection between two variables; experimental research is usually seen as more import but more difficult to conduct (Sloman‚ 2010). The purpose of
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Experimental Research Designs “A correlational study determines whether or not two variables are correlated. This means to study whether there is an increase or decrease in one variable corresponds to an increase or decrease in the other variable” (Cherry‚ 2012). In most correlation studies there is a relationship between both variables that had a change‚ while in others there wasn’t necessarily causation between the two (Cherry‚ 2012). An experimental design is one in which the researcher manipulates
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One: A researcher wanted to test the effect of caffeine on sleep. Fifty students volunteered to participate in the study and signed up for one of two nights. Thirty-three students participated on Tuesday night. They each were given two cups of regular coffee to drink one hour before going to sleep. Seventeen students participated on Wednesday night. They each were given two cups of decaffeinated coffee to drink one hour before going to sleep. Each student was monitored with an EEG (a test that looks
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Experimental Research Design 2011 The effects of an antidepressant medication on reducing symptoms of Major Depressive Disorders in males and females‚ ages 18 – 25‚ who have been diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorders and live in Pinellas County‚ Florida. Major Depressive Disorders is based on the patient’s self-reported experiences‚ behavior reported by relatives or friends‚ and a mental status examination. With the variety of antidepressant medications and the ranges of doses‚ it becomes
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Psychodynamic Therapy and the Experimental Model Making psychodynamic therapy (PDT) fit the experimental model does not remove it from the evocative therapy category. This is because the fundamental roles involved with evocative therapies are still present in experimental PDT. There are‚ of course‚ a number of changes made to fit the experimental model‚ but PDT continues the patient-based evocative methods involved in a long-term evocative therapy. In general‚ psychotherapies tend to follow a set
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Quasi-Experimental Designs Milagros V. Mercado Walden University PSYC-3003-12 Methods in Psychological Inquiry Instructor: Meredith McKee 09/28/2011 Quasi-Experimental Designs According to (Stangor‚ 2011. pp. 274)‚ quasi-experimental design is employed when there are two groups of people that cannot be assigned randomly to other groups. Also‚ in this type of design the variables cannot be manipulated as they would be in other types of experiments and the variables are measured rather
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[pic] “AIDS IN AFRICA AND INTERNATIONAL AID” Business’s Ethics Project Instructor: Zlat Milovanovic Date: January 03‚ 2011 Made by: Ana Stojanoska 2A1; ID 1719 [pic] INTRODUCTION: Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).This condition progressively reduces the effectiveness of the immune system and leaves individuals susceptible
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