Therapy

STUDY 3: An investigator was interested in the effects of various treatments on reduction of fear in phobic participants. He suspected that type of phobia may interact with therapeutic treatments; specifically, that the types of treatments for agoraphobics (fear of open spaces) and claustrophobics (fear of closed spaces) might be different. He divided participants into two groups based upon type of fear and then assigned members of each group to treatment groups: desensitization, insight, and implosive therapies. After three months of treatment, participants’ anxiety in the feared situation was measured.

1. Identify the independent variables in this study (careful…there are 2!):

2. Identify the dependent measures:

3. Develop a possible hypothesis for this study:

1 treatments for agoraphobics and claustrophobics

2 desensitization, insight and implosive therapies

3 Responses

1. statistics Says:
   February 28th, 2010 at 4:34 pm

   1 treatments for agoraphobics and claustrophobics

   2 desensitization, insight and implosive therapies
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2. sakhi Says:
   February 28th, 2010 at 5:24 pm

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3. jek1234 Says:
   February 28th, 2010 at 6:09 pm

   1. the independent variables are the different types of treatment (desensitization, insight, and implosive therapy for agoraphobics and desensitization, insight, and implosive therapy for claustrophobics). Independent variables are the ones you can change around and look to see how they affect the dependent variable. Therefore…
   2. the dependent variable is anxiety.
   3. A hypothesis might be: Agoraphobics will have less anxiety after desensitization therapy when compared to insight and implosive therapies.
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