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What Are Practice Effects?

Sometimes in psychology experiments, groups of participants are required to take the same test more than once. In some cases, …

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Categories Psychology Dictionary, Psychology Research Methods

The Robbers Cave Experiment: Realistic Conflict Theory

Robbers Cave Experiment

Psychologist Muzafer Sherif suggested that conflict between groups was the result of competition for limited resources. To put this theory …

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Categories Social Psychology

What Is a Single-Blind Study?

In psychology, a single-blind study is a type of experiment or clinical trial in which the experimenters are aware of which …

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What Is a Factorial Design? (Definition and Examples)

Factorial design

In the simplest psychology experiments, researchers look at how one independent variable affects one dependent variable. But what happens if …

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Categories Psychology Dictionary

What Is an Extraneous Variable?

Extraneous variable

An extraneous variable is anything in a psychology experiment other than the independent and dependent variables. The variables can present challenges …

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