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Psychology Handout 2
Identifying Independent and Dependent Variables
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Developmental psychologists want to know if exposing children to public television improves their reading skills. | Independent Variable: Exposing children to public television Dependent Variable:Improves their reading skills |
| Behavioral psychologists want to know whether reinforcing comments will make people work harder on an assembly line. | Independent Variable:reinforcing comments to people working Dependent Variable:will they work harder |
| Comparative psychologists study whether a young monkey will prefer to spend time with a pretend monkey made pof wire that also prvides milk or a pretend monkey that is covered with cloth but provides no milk. | Independent Variable: Young monkey Dependent Variable: the time spend with the two different fake monkeys |
| A clinical psychologist wants to know whether people who have psychotherapy are more or less likely to have problems in the future. | Independent Variable: People who have psychotherapy Dependent Variable: Have problems in the future |
| A social psychologist wants to know whether being polite or rude to people tends to make them more cooperative. | Independent Variable: Acting polite or rude to people Deoendent Variable: Make people more cooperative |
| A personality psychologist explores whether extroverted people hjave more fun at parties. | Independent Variable: Extroverted people Dependent Variable: More fun at parties |
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