Patrick and Mike Are Brothers Who Are Fighting Over a New

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Essay

Patrick and Mike are brothers who are fighting over a new toy. Their mother sends them to separate rooms until they can calm down and agree to share the toy and play "nicely." Mother is using the operant conditioning technique known as ____________________.

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Definitions:

Main Effects

The direct, independent impacts of individual variables on a dependent variable in a statistical model.

Factorial Design

A study design that allows researchers to simultaneously investigate the effects of several independent variables on a dependent variable.

Eyewitness Testimony

is the account a bystander or victim provides in the courtroom, detailing their observations of an event or crime, influential in legal proceedings but sometimes unreliable.

Independent Groups

A research design in which different groups of participants are assigned to experimental conditions, with each group exposed to a different level of the independent variable.