Because of Their Belief in the Possibility to Improve Humanity

question 45

Multiple Choice

Because of their belief in the possibility to improve humanity through social changes, both psychoanalysis and behaviorism shared similar:

• A) progressive ideas
• B) experimental principles
• C) journals for publications
• D) private funding
• E) views of the nature of human experience

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Definitions:

Random Assignment

The use of random selection to assign research participants to experimental groups.

Control Group

In experimental research, a group that does not receive the experimental treatment and is used as a benchmark to measure the effects of the treatment.

Basic Experimental Design

The fundamental structure of an experiment that outlines how to systematically test a hypothesis by manipulating variables and controlling conditions.

Randomly Assigning

The process of distributing subjects into groups in a way that each subject has an equal chance of being in any group.