• Feature: A Case Study in Distracted Driving: A case study of one man’s experience of texting while driving
  (http://www.news1130.com/2016/09/08/feature-a-case-study-in-distracted-driving/)
• The Truth About Sex, Lies and Surveys: an article highlighting some problems with survey research
  (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/sex/10488703/The-truth-about-sex-lies-and-surveys.html)
• Canada’s Volunatry Census is Worthless. Here’s Why: an article on the downside of non-random sampling:
  (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/canadas-voluntary-census-is-worthless-heres-why/article14674558/)
• How Much Are Readers Misled by Headlines that Imply Correlational Findings are Causal? Examples of people inferring causation from correlational research
  (https://digest.bps.org.uk/2017/04/21/how-much-are-readers-misled-by-headlines-that-imply-correlational-findings-are-causal/)
• Study Delivers Bleak Verdict on Validity of Psychology Experiment Results: highlighting replication issues with psychological research
  (http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/27/study-delivers-bleak-verdict-on-validity-of-psychology-experiment-results)

Case Studies of Phinease Gage: This video shows an example of a famous case study  – it will be useful for Chapter 4 too!

Video 3.1: Case Studies of Phinease Gage (https://youtu.be/X6ZvC3XzKsM) uploaded by Karen Avellaneda

The video Practice with Independent & Dependent Variables provides a clear explanation of IV, DV and confounding variables.

Video 3.2: Practice with Independent & Dependent Variables (https://youtu.be/0sqmziVN6Os) uploaded by Lucas Lichtenw.

The Danger of Mixing up Causality and Correlation: A memorable Ted talk on why correlation does not mean causation.

Video 3.3: The Danger of Mixing up Causality and Correlation (https://youtu.be/8B271L3NtAw) uploaded by Ionica Smeets.

1. Imagine that you are going to conduct an experiment looking at the effect of different kinds of tea on happiness. How many ways can you think of to measure happiness (yes, it’s the DV?)
2. Imagine that you are going to conduct an experiment looking at the effect of boredom on test performance. How many ways can you think of to manipulate boredom (yes, it’s the IV?). Remember, you will need at least two conditions in each case (e.g. if you are thinking of asking half your participants to read a very difficult physics text, you need to think what you would do with the control/comparison participants to)
3. Put together a short (4 or 5 question) survey on a topic related to education (tuition fees, online courses, technology etc) and ask some friends to complete it. Even with just a few participants, can you see any similarities in their answers?
4. Psychology Experiment Ideas for Assignments: If you want/need to come up with an idea for a research project, this site will get you started:
   (https://www.verywell.com/psychology-experiment-ideas-2795669)