Design a simple experiment to investigate the effects of television violence on children's aggressive behavior, being sure to identify both the independent and dependent variables, and both the experimental and control groups.

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ganeshie8 · Answer

So you want to design an experiment to check if `television violence` causes `aggressive behavior` in children.

ganeshie8 · Answer

Firstly, you need to pick few children for your experiment - you may use simple random sampling if you want to generalize your results to entire population

ganeshie8 · Answer

Once you have a random sample, you need to split it into two groups :
1) experimental group
2) control group

any ideas what you gona do with these groups next ?

anonymous · Answer

experimental is the level of agresiveness after watching television? and the control is the age/number of children?

ganeshie8 · Answer

nope

ganeshie8 · Answer

as the name says `experimental group` is a group of children YOU make by randomly picking half of the children and make them watch violent tv shows

ganeshie8 · Answer

`control group` is the other half of children who you don't let watch tv - so that you can compare the behavior of both the groups

ganeshie8 · Answer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treatment_and_control_groups

anonymous · Answer

okay so the control group is the children who don't watch violent tv shows. And the experimental group is the group that do watch violent tv shows?

ganeshie8 · Answer

Exactly !

anonymous · Answer

I'm not really sure where to go from there :/

ganeshie8 · Answer

we're done

ganeshie8 · Answer

make your experimental group watch violent tv shows every day for 10 days

ganeshie8 · Answer

make your control group NOT watch violent tv shows for 10 days

ganeshie8 · Answer

after 10 days, assess the behavior of both groups and compare.

ganeshie8 · Answer

experiment over.

anonymous · Answer

What would the dependent and independent variables be? I don't really get that part

ganeshie8 · Answer

dependent variable :  `behavior of children`
independent variable : `watching violent tv shows`

ganeshie8 · Answer

In an experiment :

independent variable is the CAUSE,
dependent variable is he EFFECT,

anonymous · Answer

ALRIGHT!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!! God Bless!!

ganeshie8 · Answer

np :) you welcome !