Controlling for a variable

Drews & Crouch compared the independent variable of the driving performance of 41 participants in a singular baseline conditions being the use of no mobile devices or other forms of distraction. This was done while carrying out a conversation on a mobile phone of a hand held device and a hands free device. Also while having other participants having an alcohol condition which followed the level of blood alcohol concentration of 0.8 g/l which is the legal limit in the UK. In both of mobile…

A competent and effective math teacher is not only a knowledgeable individual who strives to constantly improve teaching techniques by employing a wide variety of psychological techniques, but is someone who finds passion in helping others achieve success. Regardless of the size or location, within any classroom there exists a diverse student population with a variety of needs, abilities, and learning styles. Eliminating the traditional inflexible style of teaching enables teachers to adopt the…

happiness? If we are, then this would mean that we can control our quality of life as well. Some psychologists argue that individuals are able to control up to 40% of their happiness, while others reject this idea due to lack of evidence and other controlling factors. In Schueller and Parks’ article, “The science of Self-Help: Translating Positive Psychology: Research into Increased Individual Happiness” (2014), the psychologists argue that happiness is a factor that can be controlled. In the…

child’s social development can be different between every child depending on many variables. These variables may be age, gender, parental styles, abuse, neglect, and any sort of disorder. Parents of children with developmental delays use a more controlling behavior with their children than the parents of children with typical development (Green, 2014). Parents of children who have developmental delays and use controlling behavior probably make the development slow down even more, if a child…

In this paper, Stephen Krasner expands on neoliberal institutionalism views towards global economics. Krasner defines two controlling variables for an economic system – state preferences and system structures. State preferences include aggregate income, social stability, political power, and economic growth. All four of these portions of state preferences relate the openness of a state to the respective aspect. For my argument, I will focus mostly on aggregate income and how it benefits the…

designs, used between groups, are the pretest-posttest control group design and within groups, the crossover design. According to Sheperis, Young, & Daniels (2010) the experimental research design is an attempt to maintain control and or alter one variable…

As a result, they have to lead in the planning, initiation, designing, execution, monitoring, controlling, and the termination of the project. Among his/her key duties include the recognition of the fact that risks have a direct impact with the likelihood of failure or success of any project. Such risks mainly arise from the ambiguity situations in…

Introduction During adolescence, children go through a lot of changes, including physical, biological, and emotional, that can impact their psychological and behavioral developmental. Although there are many variables that play a role in their development such as their genes, peers, culture, and gender, it is believed that parents are the major factors that impact their children’s development. Many studies have been conducted in order to discover the different parenting styles in existence as…

personal impact or power on how the dice is rolled. Similar to the other experiments the independent variable is the type of music they are listening to; high-power versus low-power. The dependent variable however varies slightly. The overall dependent is the sense of power, but in the experiment discussed it is specifically illusory control. Researchers do not know what the outcome of this variable will be, it is out of their control, they can only observe…

Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS). The MHAS dataset contains demographic information on characteristics, indicators of current health, health behaviors, use of health care services, income, wealth, and migration history. There were six dependent variables which consisted of; Self-reported health status, measured on a 5-point Likert scale; very good, good, fair, and poor. Second, Health conditions, was defined by the number of self-reported chronic health conditions encompassing hypertension,…