can anyone give me an experiment having to do with pshychology?

Question

for example the prediction is : when people are afraid, they prefer to be together rather than alone
independent variable:
group A: High fear group (told the electic shocks would hurt)
group B: Low fear group (told the electric shock would ticle)
can anyone help me

Answer 1

give a scenario to people that has three conditions. one group gets ending A, one group gets ending B and one group gets ending C. ask questions about the scenario and see if the responses are different. hypothesize about what you think the difference between groups will be. i can't think of a scenario off-hand but you could do a crime with different aspects to it and ask if the person is guilty or something. don't forget to get demographics on your participants. you could use those to look for differences as well. like using gender as the grouping variable and just give one scenario and see if opinions are different between genders.

if your questions about the situation are categorical, you would just use the chi-square statistic to test for significance. if you wanted to use interval or ratio data, like for example a likert-type (1= strongly agree to 5= strongly disagree), then to keep it simple only use two groups (situation A and B -- or again, gender or something) and then use t-tests for independence to look for significance.

this would be an easy experiment b/c it's something you could just give them to read and they answer questions on the paper. no getting people to come to a lab and no special software is required. you may even get some professors to let you come into their classrooms and get participants that way. if it only takes ten or fifteen minutes they might say okay. try to get them to offer extra credit for it as incentive. go to like three classes and you should have a decent enough N, depending on how many conditions you use. you should want at least 30 people in each condition for anything decent, i would say.

this is just a design idea. you have to think of the details yourself. look at other research articles or in your book to get ideas. do something interesting to you. good luck.

Answer 2

in my research methods class we did a two fold experiment where we sat in front of a computer, a word would pop up and we would have to click one of two keys.. one with the right hand if it was a real word, and one with the left hand if it was not a word.. the program told how many times we got it right.. but it also measured how fast our reaction time was. what was interesting is that first person gamers like myself had a reaction time nearly twice as fast as the mean.. you could run with that.

Answer 3

Have sex with one prostitute who tests positive for HIV.

Second, tell two people to ask questions.

Judge their responses based on the mean and the standard deviation.

Answer 4

Hit your thumb with a hammer, then let a friend hit your thumb with the hammer. See who enjoys it more.