Confounding

One of the studies that we covered in class during the Social Psychology unit was the Stanford prison experiment run by Philip Zimbardo. This study has the broad design of an experiment. It is an experiment because Zimbardo set out to see the effects of prison and social roles. The idea is that he was experimenting with a group of people to see how their social roles would change once put into the controlled environment of the mock prison space. It is more specifically known as a Quasi…

information, text messages, phone calls history, and email including those may have been erased. Generally, seizing and imaging evidence is a simple procedure, yet now and again, it can be a complicated task. Seizures have a tendency to be standard, yet confounding elements can emerge when you least…

language choices. These factors are effective in influencing and shaping meaning in a text. The responder is situated to consider the ways in which Shakespeare’s play Henry IV: Part 1 and Steve Richards’ TED Talk, Art of Politics, represent the confounding nature of people and politics. Both texts effectively depict people’s political motivations and actions as well as the impact political actions may have on individual lives and society more broadly. Both texts offer a provocative…

McPherson, F., McGraw, L. (2013). Treating Generalized Anxiety Disorder Using Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Alternative Therapies in Health & Medicine, 19(5), 45-50. Fujo McPherson and Leigh McGraw used a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design study utilizing (CAM) or complementary and alternative medicine to investigate the effectiveness of a pilot program for generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) patients after using self-care behavior methods. They particularly related this belief…

The pursuit of philosophical proof and further analysis led William Golding to the birth of Lord of the Flies, a novel meant to be looked at closely as it stresses the importance of society, the inner workings of man, and the blind eye man turns to its inherent depravity. Stuck in an uncharted island, the minds of young, malleable boys explore the forests and shores of their new adventure, the absence of grownups and societal protection experimented on through a curious, inviting eye. Leading…

use a modified version of digit backward test which includes alpha numeric sequences. 20 non central nervous system childhood cancer survivors age between 8-18 who are at least 1 year post treatment will constitute study group. To control for confounding factors, 20 age and sex matched healthy children will be tested. The testing procedures will take less than 30 minutes and all the participants will receive a 10 $ gift card as a compensation for their time. Dual tasking is common in everyday…

A good night’s sleep for the average teenager is about 8 1/2-10 hours of sleep. There are many psychological and physical problems that can happen because of sleep loss, such as depression, weight gain, and irritability, but can sleep affect one’s grades in school? My theory is that it can, that those who sleep more will have better grades than those who don’t, so I wanted to conduct a survey to find out if this was true. I would so a survey rather than during a case study, which would be…

consistent with those that had been observed in other countries or regions. In delving further into this topic, it would be interesting to focus on specific regions and possibly draw parallels based on how patriarchal a society is. There are numerous confounding variables that affect the associations observed but overall some observations remain standard. IPV perpetration and victimization both have an effect on pregnancy outcomes. While perpetration is often associated with victimization, a…

John Ridley Stroop was an American psychologist who studied the reaction time in individuals. In 1935, he published the Stroop test. The purpose of the Stroop test was to measure an individual’s reaction time and how your brain processes information (Gray). In this experiment, participates would watch a single word appear on their screen. Their task was to indicate as quickly as possible the color of the text that appears on the screen. For example, if you saw the word blue and the color of the…

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