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Week 3 Discussion I chose a topic that is near to my heart, but also one that some people are skeptical of, and that is the nature of a dog and their capacity to love unconditionally, experience, understand, and respond to emotions in the same way that humans do. My new research question is, do dogs experience and process emotions like people do? Do dogs love unconditionally, or are they just creatures of habit? Why or why not? Considering they do love unconditionally, I would then ask the question, do dogs mourn a loss in the same way a human does when a loved one dies? If so, do they respond to comfort in the same way a human might throughout the grieving process? And are there scientific ways to study this? Highlight at least one threat to internal or external validity or reliability. Internal validity is the extent to which we can be confident that a cause-and- effect relationship established in a study cannot be explained by other factors. One threat to internal validity or reliability is social interaction. Discuss why this threat is problematic. Social threats to internal validity are problematic because they occur as a result of a person's reaction, or for my research, the reaction of dogs, and people. If I can identify the threats to internal validity in my research study, it will help me to develop a control measure for the study. Discuss how the threat could be remedied. When considering how to remedy social threats to internal validity, I considered the experimental design itself. By simply altering the experimental design, we can counter several threats to internal validity. The random assignment of participants, both canine and human to groups, counters selection bias, making groups comparable at the start of the study. By not sharing the purpose of the study with the participants, it will counter the effects of social interaction.

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