NON EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH

1. A college instructor gives weekly quizzes to students in one section of his course
but no weekly quizzes to students in another section to see whether this has an
effect on their test performance.
2. A researcher conducts detailed interviews with unmarried teenage fathers to
learn about how they feel and what they think about their role as fathers and
summarizes their feelings in a written narrative.
3. Should we use nanobots to produce and deliver drugs to human patients?
4. A researcher measures the impulsivity of a large sample of drivers and looks at
the statistical relationship between this variable and the number of traffic tickets
the drivers have received.
5. What is the ideal weight for longevity? What is the connection between diet and
lifespan?
6. How is sleep related to memory?
7. Why do people get epilepsy? How can it best be treated?
8. A researcher randomly assigns patients with low back pain either to a treatment
involving hypnosis or to a treatment involving exercise. She then measures their
level of low back pain after 3 months.
9. Why do birds have such beautifully colored feathers?
10. Will researchers really be able to use genetics to help us live both longer and
healthier?