Models of Behavior and Principles of Learning

Lesson 1 Short Answer 1.<Tab/>Define the experimental method. Describe one major way the experimental method differs from the correlational method. The experimental method is a manipulation of an independent variable to look for an effect on a dependent variable. That is, the experimental method includes experiments to find the relationship between one dependent variable and one independent variable. Thus, the casual relationship between the dependent and independent variable can be clearly …

…is the mass media - TVs, films, advertisements etc. When the person sees the behaviors in the mass media, the person learns to do so at the same way. For example, when a child watches a TV program that a bad person always wears sunglasses, the boy learns that the person is a bad guy when the person wears sunglasses. Then the child will hate the people will wear sunglasses due to the observational learning.