1. Experiment Aim: What are you studying?
Sample: How many? Gender? Age? Sampling method? (opportunity)
Apparatus: Where? When? Controls? Stooges? Presentation materials?
Variables:
Independent: Conditions created-What are you going to compare to what?
Dependent: What are you going to measure and how are you going to measure it?
Procedure: Step-by-step
Data: Quantitative (numbers) or Qualitative (info)

2. Experiments Conducted
3B:
Memory and gender by Rogelio’s group (lab experiment)
Music and personality type by Zulema’s group. (Correlation)
Positive and Negative Reinforcement by Nancy’s group. (lab experiment)
Pattern repetition and congruence by Ellen’s group (lab experiment)
4B:
Smell and taste by Joseph’s group. (Lab experiment)
Friends vs strangers and collaboration by Heidy’s group (Lab experiment with observation)
Music and memory by Moriah’s group (lab experiment)
Instructional Method and Retention by Ciaran’s group (lab experiment)

3. Definitions
Apparatus-an instrument, piece of equipment, used in an experiment for various purposes, such as delivering stimuli or measuring responses during an experiment.
Independent Variable-affects the DV-Always more than one-Sometimes manipulated or changed.
Dependent Variable-the outcome or what is measured in an experiment
Operationalized-process of defining the measurement of something that is not directly measurable.

4. Control of Variables Situational Participant
Standardisation
Participant
Counterbalancing
Random Allocation
Demand Characteristics vs Social Desirability
Single Blind Test
Investigator effects
Double blind test
Confounding Variables
Controls

5. There is a difference between method and design.
Experiment (Lab, Field, and Natural)
Self report (Questionnaires and interviews)
Observation
Case Study
Correlations
Design:
Independent Groups
Repeated Measures
Matched Pairs

6. Potential Issues to Discuss (Besides Variables)
Ecological Validity
Ethics
Validity
DR DICH
Reliability
Deception
Right to Withdraw
Usefulness
Debriefing
Generalizability
Informed Consent
Confidentiality
Harm to well being

7. Types of experiments Lab: artificial environment
Field: natural environment, but experimenter still manipulates IV while measuring DV.
Natural: natural environment, and variables cannot be manipulated.