Take 5 minutes to make a list of the 15 things that you want to find, accomplish, reach before the age of 35.

Now cut it to 10

Now cut to 8…

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Will high school juniors and seniors commit to more familial and intimate goals when their number of choices are reduced?

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When the number of choices a student may make pertaining to future goals and dreams is slowly reduced, in the end, a student will choose familial and intimate goals over those that are materialistic in nature.

Experiment, Results, Conclusion, Theory

The Hypothesis

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Sample - a small group of participants out of the entire population

In our experiment, you guys were the sample out of all at Richland High School, or BISD, or Texas, or the United States

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Naturalistic Observation –Research where subject is observed in natural setting w/o interference

Case Study-Intensive investigation of one or more subjects

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Longitudinal Study –Research of a certain group over a period of years

- Changes in characteristics

- Consistencies over time

Cross-sectional Study Research of different age groups to determine differences due to age

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Variable –Any factor that is capable of change

- independent variable: the one experimenters change so they can observe effects

- dependent variable: the one

that changes in BECAUSE OF or in RELATION TO the independent variable

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Correlation –The measure of a relationship between two sets of data

- positive correlation

- negative correlation

- no correlation

Hypothesis –Educated guess about the relationship between two variables

Think about our experiment today

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Experimental Group –Group to which an independent variable is applied

Control Group –Group that is treated the same as experimental group minus the independent variable

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