Thursday, December 15, 2011

What is the control group and what is the experimental group?

I'm doing a psychology project and my friend and I had my sister walk around Petsmart with us on a leash acting like dogs to break the social norm. Then we had to observe and write about the people's reactions in the store.|||Control group is the people doing the experiment and the experiment group is the crowd...|||When performing an experiment, the Experimental group is the group who is being experimented on. (So, the people in the store while you are on the leash).


The control group is the group who is not exposed to you on a leash. (So you would have to go into Petsmart on a separate occasion where you are not on a leash to document how people act when things are going normally.)|||The experimental group is the one that recieves the treatment and the control group is the one that doesn't and is used to compare the effects of the experimental group

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