The Design of a Psychological Experiment

Design of a Psychological Experiment Problem: Suppose you are a psychologist who is interested in the effects of caffeine on the eye-hand coordination of students enrolled at UMCP. Design an experiment to test the hypothesis that caffeine enhances a student's ability to hit a baseball. Describe your experiment by answering the following questions: 1) What are the independent and dependent variables? The independent variable would be the caffeine. The results of the students' hitting of the …

…hitting a baseball are two very different skills. Landing a plane requires more skill and the side effects of caffeine which are not evident in the above experiment might show up in a pilot. Caffeine may cause some people to become nervous and shake and that would not help a pilot land a plane. The only way to find out would be to setup and experiment about the effects of caffeine on pilot landing planes.