You Are Interested in Conducting a Research Study to Investigate

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Essay

You are interested in conducting a research study to investigate whether the smell of cookies makes people happy. In your experimental condition, you have people complete a mood assessment with the smell of freshly baked cookies in the air. Design a control condition for this experiment.

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Definitions:

Bright Lights

Intense levels of light that can have various effects on human behavior and physiology, such as impacting circadian rhythms.

Observational Learning

Learning that occurs through observing the actions of others and the consequences of those actions, without direct experience.

Classical Conditioning

An acquisition of knowledge process that forms by associating an environmental stimulus with a natural one.

Operant Conditioning

A learning mechanism characterized by the adaptation of behavior strength through the provision of incentives or deterrents.