PSY 516

Assignment # 01
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Sr. # Examples Independent Dependent Justification

variable variable
Dr. Naveed is conducting a
research to investigate whether
variation in sleep quality
influences level of stress. Changes in sleep
Participants are asked to report Variation in Level of quality are
1
their sleep quality over a specific sleep quality stress predicted to affect
period, and their stress levels are stress levels.
measured before and after to see
if sleep quality affects stress
levels.
Dr. Mohsin is conducting a
longitudinal study to see how
childhood nutrition affects health
as children grow up. He is
Childhood nutrition
observing a group of children from
is likely to
birth, monitoring their dietary
Childhood Health influence a variety
2 habits and health status as they
nutrition parameters of health outcomes
age. As the children grow older,
Dr. Mohsin assesses parameters
as children grow
such as weight, blood pressure,
older.
and cholesterol levels to
determine the effects of early
nutrition on their overall health.
3 Mr. Khan conducted a quasi- Teaching Academic The researcher is
experimental study and for this method performance investigating if
purpose he selected students different teaching
from two similar classes. In one approaches
class, the traditional teaching influence academic
method was used, while in the success.
other class, the virtual teaching
method was implemented. Both
groups received instruction on the
same subject simultaneously
throughout the semester. At the
end of the semester, he assessed
academic performance of both
groups using a standardized
 questionnaire.
Mr. Qamar plans to investigate
whether listening to music while
working affects productivity.
The researcher is
Participants are assigned to either Background
Productivity exploring if
4 a music or no-music condition music while
levels background music
while completing tasks, and their working
productivity levels are compared
affects productivity.
to see if background music
influences performance.
Mr. Ali invited participants from a
university campus for a research
project and they are asked to
The researcher is
complete two questionnaires: one
investigating the
assessing their smartphone usage
Smartphone Academic link between
5 habits (e.g., hours spent on the
usage habits performance smartphone usage
phone per day, frequency of
checking notifications) and
habits and academic
another assessing their academic
performance.
performance (e.g., GPA, self-
reported grades in recent exams.