EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN DIAGRAM

Means creating a set of procedures to test a hypothesis.

It is a convenient way of laying out the important parts of an experiment.

You should always do this before you start an experiment to make sure that you have remembered each part.

The “diagram” is not really a diagram, but more of a visual layout of the parts of an experimental design diagram.

QUESTION/ TITLE: Construct a testable question: it should be written as "the effect of the IV on the DV.

HYPOTHESIS: It should be in the form of "if-then" statement.

INDEPENDENT VARIABLE

DIFFERENT LEVELS OF THE INDEPENDENT VARIABLE

LEVEL OF THE INDEPENDENT VARIABLE that will serve as the control for the experiment

NUMBER OF REPEATED TRIALS for each level of the IV

DEPENDENT VARIABLES, including how they will be measured

CONSTANTS