Design of a Psychological Experiment Problem: Suppose you are a psychologist who is interested in the effects of caffeine on the eye-hand coordination of students enrolled at UMCP. Design an experiment to test the hypothesis that caffeine enhances a student's ability to hit a baseball. Describe your experiment by answering the following questions: 1) What are the independent and dependent variables? The independent variable would be the caffeine. The results of the students' hitting of the …showed first 75 words of 473 total…

…showed last 75 words of 473 total…hitting a baseball are two very different skills. Landing a plane requires more skill and the side effects of caffeine which are not evident in the above experiment might show up in a pilot. Caffeine may cause some people to become nervous and shake and that would not help a pilot land a plane. The only way to find out would be to setup and experiment about the effects of caffeine on pilot landing planes.