PSYC 2030 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Repeated Measures Design, Mortality Salience, Random Assignment

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2030
• Professor: John Grundy

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There are four basic research designs involving one independent variable that has two levels. Independent groups; between subjects, iv manipulated, random assignment: matched groups; between subjects, iv manipulated, matched, nonequivalent groups; between subjects, subject manipulated, matching may reduce nonequivalence, repeated measures; within subjects, iv manipulated, n/a creating equivalent groups. That is, each participant in the study experiences each level of the independent variable (i. e. , is measured repeatedly). Independent group example: creating a feeling of insecurity and anxiety to determine how insecurity influenced how participants respond to questions about financial and consumer issues. The research group writes an essay regarding their death and the control group writes an essay about music. The groups then wrote about how they view their lives in the next 15 years. With mortality salience, the group estimated their future worth to be higher than those who wrote about music (kasser & sheldon.