An Investigation To See If There Is A Difference between Type A and personalities (as classified by Friedman and Roseman’s 1974 Questionnaire And Their Physiological Response To A Mildly Stressful Activity
CONTENTS
Introduction ……………………………………………………… page 1
Aim ……………………………………………………….page 1
Hypotheses ………………………………………………………page 1
Method ………………………………………………………page 1
Participants ………………………………………………………page 2
Materials …………………………………………………........page 2
Procedure ……………………………………………………….page 2
Results ………………………………………………………page 3
Discussion ……………………………………………………….page 4
Conclusion ………………………………………………………page 5
References ………………………………………………………page 6 Appendices
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Then I went away to put them into their type A or B. then I had one person at a time doing the same dot-to-dot (appendix c) as I the investigator took their pulse before they start then the second time as they are looking for the missing number and third time after they had finished the dot-to-dot then record the results the pulse was counted by the minute hand for one minute ach time this was repeated twenty times throughout the day same environment. Once the experiment had finished I put up a on the notice board a thank you for your participation and if you would like to know the results or any questions about Type A or Type B come and see me.
RESULTS
Answers to the Questionnaire that decides type A or Type B
Participants
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
Q5
Q6
Q7
Q8
Q9
Q
10
Q 11
Q 12
Q 13
A or B
1 FEMALE
3
-2
3
5
-4
2
-3
1
-4
2
3
1
4
A
2 FEMALE
-3
4
-2
-1
3
-5
-3
2
-1
-3
-4
1
3
B
3 MALE
-1
-4
-2
4
3
5
2
1
3
-4
3
-4
5
A
4 FEMALE
-1
-4
-3
5
2
-3
-1
2
-1
-2
2
-1
4
B
5 FEMALE
-2
4
-3
3
4
5
-3
-4
-5
3
2
4
3
A
6 MALE
2
-4
-1
1
-3
-5
2
-3
-2
-1
-3
-2
-4
B
7 FEMALE
3
1
5
-4
-3
2
3
4
-3
-2
5
3
-1
A
8 MALE
-1
-3
2
4
-1
-3
-2
-4
4
-1
-2
1
3
B
9 FEMALE
2
1
-1
-4
3
-5
4
3
2
1
-3
2
4
A
10 FEMALE
3
1
4
-1
2
1
-3
-2
4
5
-3
1
4
A
11 MALE
-2
-3
1
-3
-4
-2
-1
2
5
-3
-1
-2
-4
B
12 MALE
-2
-4
3
2
-1
-4
-2
-3
1
3
-2
-1
2
B
13 MALE
5
3
-4
2
3
2
1
-4
-1
5
4
1
4
A
14 MALE
4
2
-3
-4
4
1
3
2
-3
4
5
3
-2
A
15 MALE
-4
3
-2
-4
2
-1
2
4
-3
-1
-4
1
-3
B
16 FEMALE
1
3
-2
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