The Text Highlights an Intriguing Study That Demonstrates How the Presence

question 143

Essay

The text highlights an intriguing study that demonstrates how the presence of cell phones can decrease closeness, trust, empathy, and overall conversation quality among strangers. Design a follow-up experiment to examine whether the presence of cell phones has the same impact on the conversation quality between friends. In your answer, be sure to operationally define both your independent and dependent variables, as well as specify what will happen to your participants in both the experimental and control conditions.

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Definitions:

Causal Relationship

A connection between two entities where one is understood to be the cause of the other.

Logical Fallacy

A flaw in reasoning that leads to incorrect arguments, often invisible in the argument's structure but critically undermining its validity.

Causally Related

Refers to entities or events connected by a cause-and-effect relationship, where one directly influences or brings about the other.

Randomly Assigned Control Group

A group of subjects in an experiment that is randomly selected to not receive the treatment, allowing for a comparison to evaluate the effect of the treatment.