Assignment task:
Please help with the following questions:
Assume you are a research assistant working in the lab of Dr Pulaski. You are asked to design an experiment examining the effects of an oxytocin nasal spray on digit span in human participants. Digit span is the longest sequence of random digits that can be repeated correctly 50 percent of the time. The experiment should use a between-subjects design.
1. In own words, without copying anything from any source, describe in plain English, without using any terms that a typical teenager would not be familiar with, an appropriate procedure for determining whether a participant would be assigned to either the experimental group or the control group. For example, assume Geordi is a participant in the experiment - describe the specific physical actions you will take in order to assign him to one group or the other. Do not simply identify or label the process, but instead specifically describe what you would do.
2. In own words, without copying anything from any source, in one complete sentence, identify the independent variable in this experiment.
3. In own words, without copying anything from any source, in one complete sentence, identify the dependent variable in this experiment.
4. In own words, without copying anything from any source, briefly describe how the procedure would be different if you used a within-subjects design for this experiment instead of a between-subjects design.