This is a STAT experiment assignment. Whtch this video: https://www.youtube.com/

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This is a STAT experiment assignment.

Whtch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbQf6X9UkX0

This segment features an experiment with rhesus monkeys conducted by professor and students.

1: List the steps involved in conducting the experiment.

2: What was the goal of this experiment and what did the researchers discover?

3: What gave Laurie Santos the idea to conduct this experiment?

4: Describe some of the ways that the researchers' controlled for fassctorrs that might cause monkeys to approach one researcher rather than the other?

5: Discuss the experiment and solict feedback about the experiment

(Please type the answer for me. Dont take the picture)

Explanation / Answer

1.

2.Understanding of human perceptions and mental states.

3. Monkeys had stolen food from her and her colleagues when they weren’t looking.

4.Researchers dressed in similar, The researchers were both women, similar in height , researcher did her action at the same time,Researchers stood the same distance away from the monkey.

5.

Independent Variables- changes in the experiment that are controlled by the experimenter

E.g.: having one researcher face away while the other faces the grape

Dependent Variables- changes that occur as a result of the independent variable

E.g.: The monkey steals the grape when the researcher turns away).

Controlled Variables- Anything else that could impact the results of the experiment

E.g.:    The clothing of the researchers, the distance of the researchers from the grape and from the monkey, etc.) These variables are held constant during an experiment.

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