Question

You are a psychologist who is interested in studying the effects of media coverage of thin models on the development of eating disorders. Specifically, you want to determine if viewing media coverage of really thin models is related to the likelihood of being diagnosed with an eating disorder.

1. state your hypothesis

2. Would you use an experiment or correlational design to test your hypothesis? Why?

3.If you conducted an experiment, the independent variable would be

4.If you conducted an experiment, the dependent variable would be

5.In an experiment, the experimental group would be the group who (BLANK) exposed to media coverage of thin models. Answer options: was or was not

6.If you conducted correlational research and found a correlation of r = .42 between amount of media coverage of thin models and eating disorder symptoms, what conclusions could you draw (use the correlation coefficient to describe the relationship between these variables).

7. If you conducted a correlational design, could you say that the viewing of media coverage of thin models causes the development of eating disorder symptoms?

8. Which of the following descriptive methods (survey, case study, observation, standardized test, or physiological measures) would be beneficial to use in combination with either an experiment or correlation to test your hypothesis? Explain your answer.

9. Which descriptive method could you use to increase external validity of your conclusions about the impact of viewing media reports about thin models on the development of eating disorders? Explain your answer.

Answer 1

1) NULL HYPOTHESIS H0: There is no correlation between two variables.

ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS Ha: There is POSITIVE correlation between two variables.

NULL HYPOTHESIS H0:

ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESIS Ha:

2) We are establishing correlation between two variables therefore we will use correlational design to test hypothesis.

3) The independent variable would be media coverage of really thin models.

4) The Dependent variable would be people diagnosed with eating disorder.

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