Tutorial Week 7

Reference materials: Lecture notes 3,4 and relevant book chapters.

Question 1
Define Independent and Dependent Variables.

Provide two examples of how a dependent variable in one study could be used as an independent variable in a different study.

Answer:
Independent Variable is the variable that is manipulated by the researcher where as dependent variable is the result or respond that is observed by the researcher.

Examples:
Teenagers attitudes towards different types of games.
IV- Different types of games
DV- Teenagers attitudes

Different types of teenagers attitudes prefers which type of games.
IV- types of teenagers attitudes 
DV- types of games

Question 2
An operational definitions specifies the procedures to be followed to experience or measure a concept/variable. There is no single foolproof method to operationally defining a variable. The researcher must decide which method is the best suited for the research problem at hand.

Provide your own operational definition of each of following variables. In other words, if your research involves the following variables, how would you SPECIFICALLY define/observe/measure them?

1. Prime-time Television Programmes
Operational definition of the variable ' Prime-time television programmes ' is defined as television programs that are aired from 7-9pm on 8TV.

2. Students' attitude in lectures
Operational definition of the variable ' students' attitude in lectures' is observed by where the students sits in a lecture hall.
Row 1- Good attitude
Row 2- Neutral attitude
Row 3- Bad attitude

3. Addicted smartphone users
Operational definition of the variables ' addicted smartphone users' is observed by the amount of apps downloaded by the smart phone user in a day.
0 apps- not addicted
5 apps- Fairly addicted 
10 apps- addicted 

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