Psychological experiment?

Question

i need to create a psychological experiment for my psych. class. i don't have to actually perform the experiment but i do need an independent and dependent variable. please help

Answer 1

Go to apa.org  There are lots of research summaries...find something that interests you and improvise.  (psych prof)

Answer 2

Okay; here's a good one.

Indepentdant variable - The expirement is... you do nothing.  Seriously.  Read on.

Dependant variable- tell one person in the class what you plan to do.

You walk up to do your presentation.  You dispaly a blank, white dispaly board, and stand there, and stare at the class. You wait and see what happens.  They'll start to talk amoungst themselves, and the professor/teacher will ask you "What are you doing?" But you ignore them.  After a while, you talk about why the class did what they did during the silence.  Why did they speak liek that?  Why weren't they silent?  Notice their moods -angry or sad?

That should be a good Psych expirement.  ;)

Of couse, I really don't know.  I'm only 16, and neve taken a psych class in my life.  :p  Just popped up in my head.

Of course, if you become famous, give me credit!  HAha  

Answer 3

try to drive an insane person sane, by putting them around people who are really, really insane.

Answer 4

you could do an experiment on mob mentality.

have controlled group of people do different actions (for example face away from the door) and then see how a random person (the independent variable) reacts, and if they follow the other people

Answer 5

all you have to do is find a boss is 100 percent fair