Example: Violent cartoons increase children’s aggressive
behaviors.
1) Define a independent variable and its levels (experimental condition)
2) Create equivalence either through use of different participants (between-participant designs) or through use of the
same participants in each of experimental conditions (repeated-measure designs = within-participant designs)
3) Assign participants to each level randomly.
4) Select a dependent variable
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