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1.3 FRQ AP Psychology
ap psychology
High School - US
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Blaize Sullivan
Mrs. Young
AP Psych – 1 FRQ
23 September 2022
Prompt:
A psychology graduate student conducted a study at the entrance to a football game at the university. The entrance was specifically for students who made the Dean's List for academic achievement during the previous semester. As they arrived, the graduate student asked half of the students to record their attendance on an attendance sheet. The remaining half were allowed to enter the game without recording their attendance. The graduate student told every student to take one soda and one hamburger from a concessions table sponsored by the Dean's Office. She then returned to the sign-in table out of sight of the concessions. This gave the students the opportunity to take additional food. The graduate student measured the percentage of students who took additional free food. Her hypothesis was that students would take more food when they were not asked to sign in. The results are shown in the graph below; assume all differences are significant.
The confounding variable in experiments is a variable that is not a part of the experiment that effects the results. This could be such as the students The confounding variables in this experiment are how many of the Dean's List students sign in, and if the student is alone or in a group. The graduate running the experiment will get a random amount of Dean's List students attending the game and if the student is alone or in a group is also random.
The independent variable is whether or not the student signs in on the attendance sheet. The graduate student running this experiment will choose at least half of the Dean's List students to sign-in on the sheet and who is chosen is completely random.
Operational definitions are important when conducting research because it defines all the variables in the experiment, so it can be replicated. It is the step-by-step process of how you conduct the experiment so others can prove your findings in other circumstances. For example, in this experiment the operation definition could be defined as doing what is right even when no one is watching.
The operational definition of the dependent variable is the number of extra sodas and hamburgers taken during the time the graduate student is away from the concessions table. The number of missing sodas and hamburgers is calculated by taking the number of students who were let in and multiplying it by two (to account for the initial amount the students were given) to get the hypothetical number of items missing then take that number and subtract the final amount of items left on the table to get the number of missing sodas and hamburgers.
The data supports the hypothesis that students who didn't sign in are more likely to take additional food. The table shows that 81% of those who didn't sign in took extra, while those who signed in only 28 % took extra food. This proves that the students who took extra food are most likely to have not signed. The data does not support the hypothesis that students who arrived alone will take additional food. The table shows that 77 % of students that arrived in a group took extra food, but of the students who arrived alone only 28% of students took extra food. This confirms that students coming with a group is more likely to take extra food.
The findings cannot be generalized to all students because this only applies to students who are on the Dean's List. For this experiment's data to be generalized to all the students, it would mean every student would have the same mindset, judgement, or principle from this specific study. Which in this situation, they do not.
A naturalistic observation is where research participants are observed in their natural environments and do not know that they are being watched. These circumstances are in place so that the participants do not change their behavior on the bases someone is watching. This study is a naturalistic observation because, it takes place in the subjects' natural environment rather than a lab, the graduate student conducting the experiment contacted the participants thereby breaking the rule of no intervention. Another reason why this study is a naturalistic observation is, the Dean’s list students, do not know that they are being watched, allowing for the experiment to run the way it was designed to.
1.3 FRQ AP Psychology
Subject: ap psychology
School: High School - US
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