Question 1: What are the essential characteristics of a true or randomized experiment?
Question 2: To what extent do the artificial constraints of the laboratory experiment restrict the study of social behavior?
Question 3: What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a within- rather than a between-subjects design? Explain your answer
Question 4: Is it always necessary to try to check the effectiveness of the manipulation of the independent variable?
Question 5: Why is random assignment important in true or randomized experiments?
Question 6: Should a pre-test always be included in a true experiment? Why? Why Not?
Question 7: Could psychologists dispense with the laboratory experiment just as many other disciplines have?