DUE IN 4 HRS MAXIMUM
Psychology 110
First and Last Name: _________________________
Instructions: For this assignment, you will download and read a scientific article, and then answer the questions below relating to the theory, methodology, variables and operational definitions in the article. Focus your responses on the information from experiments 1a and 1b only.
The scientific article is in the lab assignments module under course content:
Harris, J. L., Bargh, J. A., & Browneel., K.D. (2009). Priming effects of television food advertising on eating behaviour. Health Psychology, 28(4), 404-413.
Questions:
1. What was the purpose of the study? What was the hypothesis?
2. What was the independent variable?
3. What was the dependent variable? How did the researchers operationally define this variable?
4. Very briefly, what was the procedure?
6. In relation to the hypothesis, what were the results? Was the hypothesis supported?
7. What conclusions did the researchers make?