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Psychology and Experimental Methods

1. Outline the conditions that must be met before causal inference is possible.
2. Describe the characteristics of a true experiment, and the factors that distinguish it from various pre-experimental designs.
3. Articulate the key differences between within subjects and between subjects designs.
4. Describe, and illustrate with examples, the threats to internal validity.
5. Identify a true experiment in the research literature, and describe its key design features.
6. hypothesis for a true experiment.
7. Define what is meant by external validity, and identify factors likely to increase or decrease the external validity of an experiment.
8. Distinguish between a population and a sample, and describe key methods of sampling from a population.
9. Distinguish between random sampling and random assignment.
10. Define, and provide examples of, demand characteristics and experimenter expectancy effects.
11. Describe what is meant by counterbalancing, and explain when and why it is used.
12. Explain how a quasi-experiment differs from a true experiment.