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Research Strategies and Variables
Learn about research strategies and variables, including the design choices a researcher must make when constructing an experiment, along with the implications of those choices for the types of variables examined; the causal and noncausal relationships between variables; data analysis; study design; study setting; and study validity, generalizability, and reproducibility. This is the third lesson in the Introduction to Research series.
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Analyzing Data and Drawing Conclusions
Learn how to conduct the final phase of the research process, including how to analyze, interpret, and present data; discuss findings; and draw conclusions. This is the eighth lesson in the Introduction to Research series.
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© 2021 American Psychological Association.
Confounding Variables and Their Control
Learn about confounding variables and how to control them, including how confounding variables function in the contexts of the participants; the experimenter; the stimuli, procedures, or situation; the instrumentation; and covariates. This is the fifth lesson in the Introduction to Research series.
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