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Understanding the basic elements of an experiment and how experiments contribute to casual explanations

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Identify the basic elements of an experiment and discuss how experiments contribute to casual explanations.

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An experimental one major aspect - it is called MANIPULATION OF A VARIABLE. What experimenters do is take an aspect that they want to study this is called the INDEPENDENT variable. Then, the experimenter will manipulate this variable. The changes that occur in behaviour are called the DEPENDENT variable.

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