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Narrative: Aspirin and polyps
A study done by the Ohio State University Medical Center examined whether or not taking an aspirin a day would help colon cancer patients reduce the chance of getting subsequent colon polyps.635 patients with colon cancer participated; 317 of them were randomly assigned to the aspirin group, and the other 318 patients were assigned to a placebo (non-aspirin) group.54 patients in the aspirin group developed subsequent polyps, compared to 86 patients in the non-aspirin group.Many confounding variables were controlled for in this well-designed randomized experiment.
-{Aspirin and polyps narrative} Make a contingency table summarizing the data from this study, making the explanatory variable the row variable and the response variable the column variable.
Emotional Responses
The physical and psychological reactions that are triggered by an emotional event or stimulus.
Negative Reinforcement
A method in operant conditioning where an adverse condition is removed or avoided following a desired behavior, thereby strengthening that behavior.
Punishment
A process by which a consequence immediately follows a behavior, decreasing the likelihood of that behavior's recurrence.
Robert Rescorla
An American psychologist known for his work with Allan Wagner on the Rescorla-Wagner theory of conditioning, which emphasizes the role of cognition in classical conditioning.
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