Chapter 4: Experimental Design

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify the key components of an experiment, and go through the decisions involved in putting them together in order to design a good experiment.

With this objective in mind, watch the following video

Dr. Simine Vazire briefly describes experimental research.

What is experimental research?

  1. When you manipulate the both variables
  2. When you manipulate the dependent variable, to see if it has an effect on the independent variable
  3. When you manipulate the independent variable, to see if it has an effect on the dependent variable

Click for the correct answer.

Answer: C