UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Analysis

1. Some people have argued that the Johns Hopkins psychologist used this opportunity as an experiment to test his nurture theory of gender identity. What are the expected results of this experiment, assuming that the nurture theory is valid?

To perform this experiment, students worked in pairs with one group of three students who rotated through the roles of observer and subject in a class of nine total students of mixed race and gender. The observer began by measuring 220mL of water in a 500mL graduated cylinder and dispensed it into a 500mL Erlenmeyer flask. In that 500mL Erlenmeyer flask ten drops

A total of 59 participants took part in this experiment. They were split into two independent experimental groups, one being the control group, and the other the experimental group. There were 30 participants in the control group, and 29 participants in the experimental group. The male to female ratio was fairly equal with

Participants: When testing the before mentioned hypothesis, the participants will be the people of a local bar. We will randomly recruit 50 participants for this research with the details listed below in summary. A local get together family reunion will be used to select participants at random. The participants will be pulled from the local populous that come to the bar on a Saturday night. The researchers will keep an even amount of men and women when selecting participants. Once selected the participants will be assigned to a group using a die. If the die lands on an even number the participant will be assigned to the experimental group, likewise if the die lands on

Participants/Subjects of experiment one: Seventy-one male and female undergraduates. .A11 had taken psychological tests approximately 2 weeks earlier.

The strengths of the study is that is cost effective and does not require a lot of funding. Another strength is that George Mason University has a very diverse population, thus there is a high chance of obtaining a racially and culturally diverse group when randomly selecting the participants. Furthermore, the study also included staff and not only student in order to diversify the participant’s backgrounds as well. In addition, having both female and male participant’s makes it more diverse opposed to how many other studies that have solely focused on one gender. Although the study has many strengths, there are also some limitation to take note of. One of the major limitations is that the study is working with a very small sample size. In

The first participants for the study were men (a later experiment tested women) recruited by adverts in the local newspapers, offering $4.50, they called on people from all back grounds and professions to take part. The results were startling, 65% of the 40 participants completed the experiment and the lowest point

Over 70 volunteers responded to an ad in the paper for the experiment and went through psychological tests

There were a total of 30 participants insisting of 15 females and 15 males who are currently student of LMU, with an age range of 18 – 35 giving the mean age of 22.8. All participants were specifically chosen to be right- handed with English as their first language. It was also vital that the participants had normal or corrected to vision. Each participant was provided with a consent form for his or her acknowledgment of the experiment and was treated in accordance with the ethical principles of the BPS.

In 1971, an ad was placed asking for male volunteers to participate in a study being done at Stanford University. While 75 responded,

a. Random assignment: Both studies used randomizer software used to achieve stratified random assignment, hoping to ensure an equal sex distribution across conditions in experimental and control groups. Participants had equal chance of being in treatment or control group.

The current study had 23 participants from Miami University took part in this experiment. Throughout the study, 2 participants were excluded from analyses, because they failed to follow task instructions or failed to complete the entire experiment. This left a final sample of 21 participants (16 female, 4 male, 1 do not wish to disclose). The mean age was 21.20 years (SD = 7.06). Most of the participants were white (n = 16) while the rest included Asian, Black/African American, and Bi- or Multiracial (n = 5). In addition, in the demographic section of the survey, participants answered their academic standing: freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, or other. The majority of the participants were juniors (n = 9) closely followed by

If this experiment was done earlier in the morning then the number of students would have been greater due to more students having classes earlier in the morning rather than late in the afternoon. Also, the location of the building we observed the experiment was on the outside of campus away from most of the other campus buildings which could have play a role in the amount of students recorded during this observation. This experiment allows us to get a better understanding of social psychology. Social psychology is the affect of how people interact with others. This can lead to how people associate themselves by personality and how they want to fit into a specific group of people. This is known as the social identity theory. Throughout this experiment were can gather evidence to support this theory by observing certain behaviors exposed by the students. Most students walked alone because they were more focused on getting to their class or their next plan for the day. It demonstrates the personality types of these people by showing introverts and extroverts or either their seriousness about being able to get to their specific class on time and know in advanced where they need to go for future reference. The study done is an example of a Quasi study which is when the experiment can not have any control

Participants: To conduct this experiment fifty-two college students will be selected. A sample test will be given out before any final decisions are made on who will partake in this study. This sample test will insure that the participants’ level of intelligence are similar. Twenty-six students, men and women, will make up the experimental group, and twenty-six will make up the control group. In each group there will be thirteen men, and thirteen women, to make the twenty-six. Each group member is placed in a certain group based on his/her sample test score.

Furthermore, our hypothesis is if the gender is male, then they will have a higher perception of movement, lower perception of color, and less ability to focus when the way people see the world is a function of gender. To test this experiment, we will begin by testing controls for each exam; since we are testing teenagers in the actual experiment, children ten years younger will be the control. The controls and teenagers test in the same way for all exams. For the first exam, color perception, we will take the control female test subject and show her a color with a specific wavelength. Next, we will give her another option of four similar colors, two with higher wavelengths and two with lower, and see which color she decides is the closest to the original. Finally, from this we can measure in which wavelength direction the female detects color. We will repeat this process for all of the female test subjects individually, then the male control, and then the male subjects. Next, for the second test, the same subjects are being used and we are measuring the ability of people to notice