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Design and conduct an experiment based on one of the topics below (or choose your own). Use either a student sample or people you know (family/friends). Develop your own manipulation for the IV and measures for each variable.

One hypothesis.
Methodology
Explain whether you used different types of groups (control, experimental, placebo)
Did you use a pretest?
How you controlled for extraneous variables (variables that can influence the results)
Describe which experimental research design you used