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Dr.Morimoto is curious as to whether exposing people to violent video games causes them to be more aggressive.He assigns half his participants to play a video game for five minutes and the other half to play for seven minutes.He finds that there is no relationship between playing the game longer and being more aggressive.What might be to blame for this null effect?


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Tautology

A statement that is true by necessity or by its logical form, independent of the truth values of its components.

Conjuncts

Parts of a complex sentence or statement, connected by a conjunction, each part contributing to the whole meaning.

Self-Contradictions

Statements that inherently contradict themselves, making them logically untrue.

Conjunction

A word that connects phrases, clauses, or words together in a sentence; in logic, it represents a compound statement that is true only if both of its component statements are true.

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