Your professor has designed a research study to examine the effects of alcohol on reaction time. she has 24 subjects. eight receive 2 ounces of vodka, eight students receive 4 ounces of vodka, and eight students receive 4 ounces of alcohol flavored/ scented non-alcoholic beverage. following consumption of the beverage, they play a video driving game in which their responses are timed. they do not know what they are drinking nor what the purpose of the study is, but the person administering
the game does know whether and how much alcohol they received.
describe the following as they apply to the above study
what is the hypothesis?
what is/are the independent variable(s). how is it/are they operationally defined?
what is/are the dependent variable(s). how is it/are they operationally defined?
what is the experimental group(s)?
what is the control group?
describe some problems with this study. how well does it meet the
ethical requirements?
what biases (more than one) in research may be a factor in this study and how have these issues been addressed or could researchers address these issues?