EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN

1 Questions

4.At a daycare, the staff has had problems with the children behaving badly everyday. They begin to test to see how the children react if the staff gives them large amounts of candy when they are good and no candy when they are bad. The staff hopes that the candy reward for the children will improve their behavior. If the staff were to use an experiment to test this idea.

(4 points)

a)What would the dependent variable be in this experiment?

b)What would the independent variable in this experiment?

c)Which conditions would be in the control group for this experiment?

d)Which conditions would be in the experimental group for this experiment