Design Of A Psychological Experiment
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Problem: Suppose you are a psychologist who is interested in the effects of
caffeine on the eye-hand coordination of students enrolled at UMCP. Design an
experiment to test the hypothesis that caffeine enhances a student's ability to
hit a baseball. Describe your experiment by answering the fol ....
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.... use the same equipment, and have controlled amounts of caffeine.
The tasks for the participants would be to carefully follow the instructions of
the experimenter, that is to hit the baseball.
3) Will you treat all the participants in the same way? No, I would not treat
all the participants in the same way. The control group would not be given
caffeine. However, I would treat all experimental groups the same because that
will give more accurate results. If the participants were not treat ....
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