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psychology students... help!

Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
edited March 27 in Work & Study
please remind me again, what is a control group and what is an experiment group?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    The control group is where you keep everything the same and the experiment group is where you manipulate the variable of the experiment.

    E.g. experiment to see effect of listening to music whilst revising on test scores.

    Group 1
    Participants revised without listening to music then took test

    Group 2
    Participants revised whilst listening to music then took test

    Group 1 would be the control group, Group 2 the experiment group.

    Hope that helps :)
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