AP Psychology: 1.3, 1.6 Experimental Method and Ethical Guidelines

1.3 The Experimental Method; 1.6 Ethical Guidelines in Psychology. Identify independent, dependent, confounding, and control variables in experimental designs. Describe how research design drives the reasonable conclusions that can be drawn. Distinguish between random assignment of participants to conditions in experiments and random selection of participants, primarily in correlational studies and surveys. Identify how ethical issues inform and constrain research practices. Describe how ethical and legal guidelines protect research participants and promote sound ethical practice.

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