INTRODUCTION
APPROACHES IN RESEARCH
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Question
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Double blind procedure
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Blind procedure
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Placebo Effect
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Validity
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Detailed explanation-1: -A single-blind study is when participants do not know whether they were assigned to the control group or the treatment group. The experimenter, however does know. In a double-blind study, neither the experimenter nor the participants know to which group each participant was assigned.
Detailed explanation-2: -Medication Experiments A double-blind experiment is beneficial when testing a specific medication. Half of the participants are given the medication, and the remaining participants are given a placebo. A placebo is an inactive substance such as a sugar pill that looks identical to the medication.
Detailed explanation-3: -Example of Double Blinding in Research Participants and researchers are kept unaware of which participants are allocated to the treatment group. Then, the effects of the drug are measured by recording any new symptoms noticed in the patients.