Discussion:
Psychology Experiment Design Flaws
An experiment conducted by students that were given as aspirin at School A and sugar pills (but were told they were aspirin) for School B. The students who were given aspirin performed better on the exam than the student who were given a sugar pill .
Questions:
1. What is the independent variable?
2. What is the dependent variable?
3. What was the effect of aspirin in this experiment?
4. Was there a control condition in this experiment?
5.What can we conclude from this experiment?
Redesign the above experiement to eliminate any design flaws.