magine that you wanted to assess whether sadness impacts people’s ability to recall information.   Using the information about how to study emotion using experimental methods, briefly describe how you would go about doing this. Remember to clearly identify your DV,IV and don’t forget to include your control condition!

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Imagine that you wanted to assess whether sadness impacts people’s ability to recall information.  

Using the information about how to study emotion using experimental methods, briefly describe how you would go about doing this. Remember to clearly identify your DV,IV and don’t forget to include your control condition!

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Experimental research is concerned upon the relationship among the two variables. In this research certain variables or manipulated or controlled in order to study its effect on other variables. The main aim of this research to find a cause-and-effect relationship among the variables under study. Data structure for experimental methods are usually based on a hypothesis, that it the basis of the research and then the experiment is conducted to test the hypothesis. Experiments are conducted in Laboratories, Field or in Natural environment. 

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