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Within-subjects Repeated-measures Design
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Gary Lewandowski, Dave Strohmetz, and Natalie Ciarocco—Monmouth University A within-subjects, or repeated-measures, design is an experimental design where all the participants receive every level of the treatment, i.e., every independent variable. For example, in a candy taste test, the researcher would want every participant to taste and rate each type of candy. This video demonstrates a within-subjects experiment (i.e., one where there is an independent variable with...
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The Simple Experiment: Two-group Design
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Gary Lewandowski, Dave Strohmetz, and Natalie Ciarocco—Monmouth University A two-group design is the simplest way to establish a cause-effect relationship between two variables. This video demonstrates a simple experiment (two-group design). In providing an overview of how a researcher conducts a simple experiment (two-group design), this video shows viewers the process of turning ideas into testable ideas and forming hypothesis, the identification and effect of...
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The Factorial Experiment
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Source: Laboratories of Gary Lewandowski, Dave Strohmetz, and Natalie Ciarocco—Monmouth University A factorial design is a common type of experiment where there are two or more independent variables. This video demonstrates a 2 x 2 factorial design used to explore how self-awareness and self-esteem may influence the ability to decipher nonverbal signals. This video leads students through the basics of a factorial design including, the nature of a factorial design and what distinguishes it from...
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Cable Subjected to Its Own Weight
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2023
Overhead power transmission lines rely on cables to carry electricity across large distances. To ensure the stability and functionality of these lines, it is crucial to understand the shape and tension experienced by the cables under the influence of their weight. A generalized loading function is employed to analyze a cable subjected to its own weight. This function considers the force acting along the cable's arc length rather than its projected length, providing a more accurate...
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Reliability in Psychology Experiments
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Gary Lewandowski, Dave Strohmetz, and Natalie Ciarocco—Monmouth University In order to study something scientifically, a researcher needs to determine a way to quantify it. However, psychological constructs can be challenging to measure and quantify. This video examines reliability in the context of content analysis. A recent study in the journal Pediatrics reported that 4-year-olds who watched a fast-paced cartoon had worse performance on cognitive tasks, such as...
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Attention, memory, emotion, expectations, and personal meaning shape how sensory information becomes consciously available. Attention selects or prioritizes aspects of incoming information, while memory and expectations provide interpretive context; emotion and personal meaning influence significance. Because these influences are integrated rather than isolated, two people can respond differently to the same external event.
An observed event and a person’s experience of it are not interchangeable. The brain’s interpretation depends on information selected by attention and context supplied by memory, emotion, expectations, and meaning. Psychology therefore treats reported experience as evidence about interpretation and awareness, while behavioral or physiological measures can provide complementary information about responses to the same event.
Personal history and current psychological state can alter the meaning assigned to sensory information. The same situation may therefore produce different feelings, perceptions, or decisions across individuals, even when external conditions are similar. Studying these differences helps psychologists connect first-person reports with broader questions about perception, emotion, consciousness, and behavior.
Researchers typically combine self-reports with behavioral measures, interviews, and physiological data. Self-reports capture a participant’s own account, interviews can clarify the meaning and context of that account, and behavioral or physiological measures add observable indicators of responses. Using several sources allows investigators to examine experience without treating any single measure as a complete substitute for the others.
In mental-health research, subjective experience helps investigators examine how people experience anxiety, depression, and pain. Reports of thoughts, feelings, sensations, and perceptions can be considered alongside behavior and physiological data to identify how a condition is experienced and how it influences responses. This approach keeps the person’s perspective connected to measurable psychological and bodily findings.
Studies of consciousness and decision-making use subjective experience to ask how awareness relates to interpretation and action. Researchers can compare what participants report noticing or feeling with their behavioral responses and physiological data. Such comparisons help clarify whether differences in reported awareness correspond to differences in observable responses, making first-person information relevant to basic psychology and applied research.