A researcher designed a study to test whether exposure to conflict influences infants’ ability to discriminate emotional expressions. They randomly assigned 30 7-month-old infants to witness an argument between two puppets and 30 additional 7-month-olds to witness the same puppets playing a game. They then used a preferential looking paradigm to test whether infants could discriminate between fearful and angry faces. They found that infants who had witnessed the argument spent more time looking at angry compared to fearful faces. Infants who witnessed play looked at both faces for the same amount of time. This research design is ____________. The experimenters _________ infer that exposure to conflict influenced emotion discrimination. Select one: a. Correlational; can b. Correlational; cannot c. Experimental; can
A researcher designed a study to test whether exposure to conflict influences infants’ ability to discriminate emotional expressions. They randomly assigned 30 7-month-old infants to witness an argument between two puppets and 30 additional 7-month-olds to witness the same puppets playing a game. They then used a preferential looking paradigm to test whether infants could discriminate between fearful and angry faces. They found that infants who had witnessed the argument spent more time looking at angry compared to fearful faces. Infants who witnessed play looked at both faces for the same amount of time. This research design is ____________. The experimenters _________ infer that exposure to conflict influenced emotion discrimination.
Correlational; can
Correlational; cannot
Experimental; can
Experimental; cannot
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