Design A Experiment To See Wheather Driking Alcolhol Makes People More Agressive?
Uncategorized February 9th, 20101. Design an experiment to test whether drinking alcohol influences people’s tendency to become socially aggressive. Be sure to specify your experimental hypothesis and identify your dependent and independent variables, as well as your experimental and control groups. Identify any experimental procedures that would help to ensure the validity of your research.
February 9th, 2010 at 12:27 am
ok, well you’re going to have to be careful about ethics here. I’m assuming you don’t actually have to conduct the experiment?
The difficult part is what to use as a measure of aggressive behavior. maybe you could use a computer simulation game and count the frequency of aggressive acts. Or maybe get participants to hit a punching bag with someone’s face on it and see whether the intoxicated participants punch it more.
Your hypothesis statement would be something like we predict that increased alcohol consumption will lead to an increase in the frequency of aggressive actions. (But be specific)
Your independent variable would be the amount of alcohol consumed.
You would have a control group of participants who did not consume any alcohol. Then you could have a couple of experimental groups, maybe one who drinks below the legal driving limit and another who exceeds it.
Get the participants in the experimental (drinking) conditions to consume the alcohol and then get all your participants to complete the same task, eg play the violent computer game.
Your dependent variable would be the frequency of aggressive acts.
To ensure validity -
Make sure your participants are randomly assigned to conditions
Make sure all variables remain constant between conditions except the variable you are manipulating, in this case amount of alcohol consumed - make sure they all play the same game with the same opportunity for violent acts and for the same amount of time etc etc
February 9th, 2010 at 12:27 am
Give each person/subject at least 4 drinks in a social setting. They should get pretty hammered.
Once they are gased up with alcohol, take it all away and spill it all over the lawn in front of them.
Then see how they react.
February 9th, 2010 at 12:27 am
for your experiment you can note me as one who gets agressive and i admit it and i have seen many more