Models of Behavior and Principles of Learning

Lesson 1
Short Answer
1.<Tab/>Define the experimental method. Describe one major way the experimental method differs from the correlational method.
The experimental method is a manipulation of an independent variable to look for an effect on a dependent variable. That is, the experimental method includes experiments to find the relationship between one dependent variable and one independent variable. Thus, the casual relationship between the dependent and independent variable can be clearly found due to the absence of the third variable. But the disadvantage is that the disto…