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Drury University	Southern Arkansas University

Research Methods in Psychology: Experiments

Edward P. Kardas

Updated: January 30, 2001

Experiments are the only research method in which researchers can specify cause and effect relationships. That property makes experiments a powerful way to investigate issues in human and animal behavior. This Web page describes the basics of experiments and provides some examples of good and bad ones.

Topics (click below for lecture outlines)		Summary
Basics	-	Why use experiments? What are independent, dependent, and extraneous variables?Making everything the same except...

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