Tuesday, August 24, 2010

I was assigned to think of a experiment that has a control, independent and dependent variables!!?

2. A social psychologist thinks that people are more likely to conform to a large crowd than to a single person. To test this hypothesis, the social psychologist had either one person or five persons stand on a busy walking path on campus and look up. The psychologist stood nearby and counted the number of people passing by who also looked up.





Independent variable: Size of group (5 people or 1 person)





Dependent variable: Conformity (measured by number of people looking up)





Experimental group: People passing 5 person group





Control group: People passing single person. (This group gets “less” of the independent variable)

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