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Sarah has just gotten into a sorority that she has always wanted to be in. However, she just saw one of the members bring a copy of the upcoming biology exam to the sorority president that she obtained from the instructor's student worker. Sarah is upset that her "sorority" is engaging in unethical behavior. However, she decides to keep quiet so her loyalty will allow her to effect a change and eliminate this unethical behavior by working within the organization. Sarah has resolved her cognitive dissonance by
Random Assignment
The process of allocating participants in an experiment to different groups in a way that each participant has an equal chance of being assigned to any group, helping to ensure the validity of the results.
Causation
is the action of causing something, referring to a relationship between two events where one event (the cause) is understood to directly result in the other event (the effect).
Third-variable Problem
A situation in correlation studies where a variable that has not been measured accounts for the relationship between two other variables, potentially misleading the results.
Independent Variables
Factors or conditions in an experiment that are manipulated or changed by the researcher to observe their effects on the dependent variables.
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