Psy 101 Week 1 Discussion Questions 1 And 2

DQ 1 The amount of time spent playing violent video games correlates positively with aggressive behaviors and negatively with academic achievement. Based on your reading about interpreting correlations, what conclusions are possible from this result If this was an experimental finding, what are two sources of bias and how could they affect the results One conclusion that could be drawn is that the excessive play of violent video games somehow brings out violent behavior in test subjects and that the time spent on playing these games takes away from the subjects study time and has a direct impact on his academic achievement. The text tells us that correlation is just part of thebody of evidence. and by no means an outright conclusion. The sampling group here seems to always be the same therefore the same result is usually obtained. Personally , I think that they should reverse engineer the study or just use a different sampling of subjects. For example, Use students that are A and B average grade levels that ALSO do alot of gaming and do the study on them. Those results are guaranteed to cancel out the results of the previous study. As far as the video