Psychology Essay Notes

" Psychology Take Home Midterm "
A. The null hypothesis for this experiment is whether the subjects fall asleep while using Melatonin faster than they usually would without the treatment.
B. The research hypothesis for this experiment is whether or not Melatonin helps people fall Asleep more easily.
C. Alpha: alpha is the extent to which we are willing to accept that our results are due to Error. In each experiment, extraneous variables always have an effect on the outcome. To increase probability is due to the independent variable rather than the extraneous variables, experimenters use alpha in their process of deciding whether to reject or retain the null hypothesis. …