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A drug researcher wishes to test a new pain medication for safety and effectiveness in treating the pain associated with arthritis. It is decided to test the drug on a treatment group of 17 severely diabled arthritis sufferers in a hospital ward. For the safety portion of the study, the same drug will be administered at the same time to 17 healthy volunteers from the hospital staff. The experiment will be repeated, with the same experimental design, at a number of other hospitals and outpatient clinics across the country. Blocking .Replication
The independent variable is the conditions the participants are assigned to- either the prisoner or the guard. The dependent variable is the participants resulting behavior.
There are numerous biases (e.g., knowing which subjects are assigned to which experimental groups). Most can be avoided by using proper Control procedures (e.g., using a double-blind design) and using proper control groups.
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Being randomly assigned to the experimental condition in a research project involves being assigned to a group by chance. This is aimed at generating the best possible results of a research.
to the group in which participants are representative of people in general.
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Participants in an experimental study receive the treatment. Typically, participants are randomly assigned to either the treatment group, which receives the experimental treatment, or the control group, which does not receive the treatment or receives a standard treatment for comparison.
Random assignment ensures that participants in an experiment have an equal chance of being assigned to different experimental conditions. This helps to control for potential biases and ensures that any differences in outcomes can be attributed to the treatment being tested rather than other factors.
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Philip Zimbardo's study, known as the Stanford prison experiment, utilized a quasi-experimental research design. Participants were randomly assigned to role-play as prisoners or guards in a simulated prison environment to observe the effects of situational factors on behavior. The study aimed to investigate how individuals conform to assigned social roles and the potential consequences of power dynamics in a controlled setting.
Participants can be assigned to groups using random assignment, where each individual has an equal chance of being placed in any group, or through matched assignment, where participants are matched on key variables before being assigned to groups. Other methods include stratified random assignment, where participants are grouped based on specific characteristics before random assignment, and block randomization, where participants are assigned to groups in blocks to ensure equal group sizes.
The definition of constant variable is a variable whose value cannot be changed once it has been assigned a value for an experiment. It is the variable held steady, or constant, for a specific experiment.
Information is scant, but it appears that their experiment was imperfectly designed and not well reported. Little Albert, a pseudonym assigned for the experiment, was the subject of the experiment. He was later removed from the experiment before testing could be competently completed, so, too little data could be gathered. Additionally, and by today's standards, there appear to have been ethical problems associated with the experiment as well. The real Little Albert was reportedly identified after his death in 1925, but there seems to be no confirmation of the authenticity of this claim. The entire episode is clouded by a scandal due to an alleged affair with his partner in this experiment, Rosalie Rayner. Divorce ensued and Watson was subsequently dismissed from his position at Johns Hopkins University and found employment in private sector advertising. Much unreliable information has grown since then, regarding this experiment and it is regarded today as interesting, but of little value of itself.