Pre Lab Assessment Essay
Pre lab assessment questions
Student’s name: Stephanie Jones
Student ID number: s5054629
1. Dependent and Independent Variables
Check your understanding of the experimental method by identifying the independent variable (IV) and dependent variable (DV) in the following investigations.
1a. Autonomic Nervous System Experiment in Week 3 Tutorials
IV (name the two levels): Thought type (neutral and negative)
DV (and how was it operationalised?): Arousal, measured by heart rate (BPM)
Once you have done this (which is revision), describe what the IVs and DVs may be in the following studies:
1b. Organisational Psychology An organisational psychologist develops a new training program to improve IT personnel courtesy to clients in a large organisation. …show more content…
2. Questions on the background research paper
As noted above, background research paper is:
Nairne, J.S., VanArsdall, J. E., Pandeirada,J. N. S., Cogdill, M., & LeBreton, J.M. (2013). Adaptive memory: The mnemonic value of animacy. Psychological Science, 24, 2099-2105.
and the .pdf of this paper is provided in two places on Learning@Griffith: in this folder Assessment/ Assignment Planning Document and Course Content/Assessment/Tutorials/Week 4. All of the following questions in this section relate to this paper and other documents in the Assessment/ Assignment Planning Document. Their Study 2 is relevant here.
2a. Purpose of the Experiment and Introduction
The authors believe that there is an animacy effect in memory. What is does it mean to be inanimate?
The authors explain that animacy can be considered as any living things, including nonhuman animals, plants and perhaps even bacteria or viruses. With this in mind, it could be concluded that an inanimate means to be non-living and without a recognisable face.
Summarize their main argument (1 or 2 sentences) for why they believe we as humans may have a better memory for animate as opposed to inanimate
Student’s name: Stephanie Jones
Student ID number: s5054629
1. Dependent and Independent Variables
Check your understanding of the experimental method by identifying the independent variable (IV) and dependent variable (DV) in the following investigations.
1a. Autonomic Nervous System Experiment in Week 3 Tutorials
IV (name the two levels): Thought type (neutral and negative)
DV (and how was it operationalised?): Arousal, measured by heart rate (BPM)
Once you have done this (which is revision), describe what the IVs and DVs may be in the following studies:
1b. Organisational Psychology An organisational psychologist develops a new training program to improve IT personnel courtesy to clients in a large organisation. …show more content…
2. Questions on the background research paper
As noted above, background research paper is:
Nairne, J.S., VanArsdall, J. E., Pandeirada,J. N. S., Cogdill, M., & LeBreton, J.M. (2013). Adaptive memory: The mnemonic value of animacy. Psychological Science, 24, 2099-2105.
and the .pdf of this paper is provided in two places on Learning@Griffith: in this folder Assessment/ Assignment Planning Document and Course Content/Assessment/Tutorials/Week 4. All of the following questions in this section relate to this paper and other documents in the Assessment/ Assignment Planning Document. Their Study 2 is relevant here.
2a. Purpose of the Experiment and Introduction
The authors believe that there is an animacy effect in memory. What is does it mean to be inanimate?
The authors explain that animacy can be considered as any living things, including nonhuman animals, plants and perhaps even bacteria or viruses. With this in mind, it could be concluded that an inanimate means to be non-living and without a recognisable face.
Summarize their main argument (1 or 2 sentences) for why they believe we as humans may have a better memory for animate as opposed to inanimate