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    Media Violence Effects On Children’s Behavior The average American child spends one thousand‚ two hundred hours viewing television per year. Within this vast amount of time‚ each child will watch one hundred and fifty thousand acts of violence by the time they’re eighteen years old. (BLS American Time Use Survey‚ A.C. Nielsen Co. (2/7/2012). These statistics are very significant in terms of justifying the aggression displayed by many of the youth in this day and age. However‚ is it the television

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    significant. * If p > 0.05‚ your results are not significant.     * Experimental Design * Terminology (IV‚ DV‚ Confound‚ Control‚ etc.) * Hypothesis: a testable prediction or statement about how variables are related * Dependent variable: the variable

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    sessions) for 45 min sessions. The hypothesis was to see if mindful meditation would show greater improvement in working memory capacity (WMC) over the other two condition groups. So‚ there was one variable of what was done during the 45 min PE class and its effects on WMC. That would make this one variable have

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    ammunition sales‚ raise the burden of proof for federal gun law violations‚ and ease gun control provisions put in place previously.1 A study was conducted by Langbein and Lotwis on the effect of lobbying‚ political contributions‚ and other extraneous variables on legislators’ policy stances on the McClure-Volkmer Bill. They found that lobbying and political contributions were both successful in moving regulation because: 1) The NRA outspent its pro-gun control opponent by more than six to one 2)

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    Psychology Revision |Unit 3 Criminal Approach Social Learning Theory Description – Theory agrees with the view of classical and operant conditioning‚ but also says that we can learn by observing others‚ if their behaviour is punished or rewarded. When you observe someone acting in a certain way‚ and then decide to imitate them‚ it is known as vicarious learning. There are 3 different types of vicarious learning: Vicarious Reinforcement‚ Vicarious Punishment‚ and Vicarious Extinction. Vicarious

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    PET 15 and a modified version of the Stroop task to determine if 25 day abstinent heavy marijuana users experienced persistent deficits in executive cognitive functioning and brain activity. The performance on a modified version of the Stroop task and brain activity was compared between 25 day abstinent‚ heavy users‚ and a matched comparison group. The 25 day abstinent users showed no deficits in performance on the modified version of the Stroop task when compared to the comparison

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    is used to give the researcher more control over the experiment. This is the most scientific method of research because the researcher is able to deliberately manipulate the IV (independent variable) while controlling the CV (confounding variables)‚ making the outcome of the experiment‚ the DV (dependent variable)‚ more accurate. The manipulation of the IV indicates a cause and effect relationship between the IV and the DV. The controlled conditions of the laboratory environment make it easy for the

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    of such a design are given different treatments of the independent variables. This design of experiment is quite common in research studies concerning behavioural sciences. The merit of such a design is that it is simple and randomizes the differences among the sample items. The disadvantage is that the individual differences among those conducting the treatments are not eliminated‚ i.e.‚ it does not control the extraneous variable and as such the result of the experiment may not depict a correct

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    Psychology Collaborative Investigation Report Stereotyping: “Whether wealthy people will have positive stereotyping towards wealthy people compared to poor and middle-income people?" Marcus Wong Soon Jie 1301G22053 SE 1 Taylor’s College‚ Subang Jaya Malaysia Ms. Audrey Chee A stereotype is the over generalized belief in a group of people or a class of people. Stereotyping is a process where our brains make generalization in order to make our life simpler. This phenomenon has occurred

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    participants were also compared to themselves which removes participant variables on how they perceive stressors. The experiment was a field experiment so there was no manipulating of the independant variable to deliberately cause stress to the participants which makes it ethical. It also means the research has ecological validity and can be applied to the wider world. However‚ a field experiment may have extraneous variables which impact the results. For example‚ the student lifestyle of having little

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