Questionnaire Anxiety
Creating a psychological experiment?
Hi everyone.
I have a lab assignment in my psychology class, and for it, we need to create an artificial experiment to show the cause and effect relationship between anxiety and test performance.
I’m having some issues because I can’t figure out what to use for my independent and dependent variables. I’m assuming that test scores should be the dependent variables since they are what is being measured, but I’m not sure what to use for the independent variable.
In correlational methods it would be easier to use a questionnaire to pinpoint the level of anxiety in the individuals being experimented on, and then compare levels of anxiety and their test performance, however this has to be an independent/dependent variable type of study.
Can anyone help me figure out what I could use for an independent variable? something I can manipulate in order to show the cause and effect with their test scores? Thanks in advance.
The idea here is that you have to make some people anxious and compare them to other people who you don’t make anxious. That’s the independent variable–whether you make them anxious or not. So how do you make them anxious? There are probably lots of ways. Tell them there is a strict time limit on the test and tell them to hurry up every few minutes. Or tell them that when the test is over they’ll have to give a five minute speech on stem cell research. Good luck.
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