Group B Questions
Gaming Can Weaken Moral Maturity Article
What type of study is featured in this article?
This is an Observational study.
1. What is the conceptual independent variable (IV) in this study?
The independent variable is: the amount of time adolescents plays violent video games.
2. What is the conceptual dependent variable (DV) in this study? The dependent variable is: adolescents experience less empathy for others and the lost of the sense of right and wrong.
3. An uninformed reader may assume that the IV causes the DV because they are correlated. Describe what this naïve causal story would be. Be specific.
The long hours of violent video games that adolescents plays, make them more prom to be less empathetic and diminish their moral maturity.
4. If the causal story was proved …show more content…
If the causal story was proved to be true using an experiment, come up with one mediating variable that may explain why the IV causes the DV. Explain clearly why this might be a mediator and what that means.
The long hours of violent video games that adolescents play lead them to desensitization toward violence and such desensitization leads to the decrease of moral maturity.
6. The causal story is only one explanation as to why these variables are correlated. Come up with two possible alternative explanations about why these variables are correlated, besides the causal story you illumined above. Be specific and describe clearly what you mean.
Third explanatory variable (confound): Kids who live in a dysfunctional home where there might be domestic violence, and/or emotional abuse, are more likely to play violent video games for long hours and they may experience the risk of diminishing their moral maturity.
Reverse Causality: kids that are less empathetic, and have less of the sense of right and wrong tend to favor playing violent video games for longer hours as a way of living a fantasy world that allow them to do what ever they want without major
Gaming Can Weaken Moral Maturity Article
What type of study is featured in this article?
This is an Observational study.
1. What is the conceptual independent variable (IV) in this study?
The independent variable is: the amount of time adolescents plays violent video games.
2. What is the conceptual dependent variable (DV) in this study? The dependent variable is: adolescents experience less empathy for others and the lost of the sense of right and wrong.
3. An uninformed reader may assume that the IV causes the DV because they are correlated. Describe what this naïve causal story would be. Be specific.
The long hours of violent video games that adolescents plays, make them more prom to be less empathetic and diminish their moral maturity.
4. If the causal story was proved …show more content…
If the causal story was proved to be true using an experiment, come up with one mediating variable that may explain why the IV causes the DV. Explain clearly why this might be a mediator and what that means.
The long hours of violent video games that adolescents play lead them to desensitization toward violence and such desensitization leads to the decrease of moral maturity.
6. The causal story is only one explanation as to why these variables are correlated. Come up with two possible alternative explanations about why these variables are correlated, besides the causal story you illumined above. Be specific and describe clearly what you mean.
Third explanatory variable (confound): Kids who live in a dysfunctional home where there might be domestic violence, and/or emotional abuse, are more likely to play violent video games for long hours and they may experience the risk of diminishing their moral maturity.
Reverse Causality: kids that are less empathetic, and have less of the sense of right and wrong tend to favor playing violent video games for longer hours as a way of living a fantasy world that allow them to do what ever they want without major