Final Project Research Questions

Research Questions. Create 3 Questions that you would be interested in studying this semester based on the data we collected (See below). Your research question must come from the data collected. You should select 2 variables from the list that you would be interested in studying. You will do a correlational study on the variables that you select. See the examples below to get an idea of how this might look (I’m fine if you want to use the example for your semester project as well, but you still have to come up with 3 other questions too).

Example: How does an individual’s subjective social class influence their level of optimism?

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Variables. Express your research questions in terms of a relationship between variables. (Variable 1 vs. Variable 2

Example: Subjective social class rating vs. Life Orientation Test (optimism)

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Here is a list of the variables that we collected data for:

1. number of siblings
2. subjective social class rating
3. units
4. hours per week of work
5. hours per week of schoolwork
6. money spent on textbooks
7. dog person or cat person
8. ratings of interest in nine psychology related occupations
9. two group-diversity judgments based on photographs (constituting a between-subjects experiment)
10. ten-item personality inventory for Big Five
11. five quantitative estimates (e.g., steps from the fountain to the library)
12. Brief Sensation Seeking Scale
13. two bowling confidence judgments (constituting a within-subjects experiment)
14. Life Orientation Test (optimism)
15. Academic Procrastination Scale