1. A sample of university students was told that they were participating in a manual dexterity study. Half of the students were given a stack of money to count and the other half got a stack of blank pieces of paper. After the counting task, the participants were asked to dip their hands into bowls of freezing cold water and rate how painful it was. The table below presents the data for this study. (20 Marks)
a.Is there a significant difference in reported pain level between the two conditions? Compute statistics to 3 decimal places and use a two-tailed test with alpha = .01. (12 marks)
Money Blank (X – MM) (X – MB) SSM SSB
8 9
8 12
10 13
7 11
6 12
7 10
12 15
6 14
Total 64 96
1. A sample of university students was told that they were participating in a manual dexterity...
In a study showing that handling money reduces the perception pain (Zhou, Vohs, & Baumeister, 2009), a group of college students were told that they were participating in a manual dexterity study. Half of the students were given a stack of money to count and the other half got a stack of blank pieces of paper. After the counting task, the participants were asked to dip their hands into bowls of very hot water (122°F) and rate how uncomfortable it...