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    Experimental research involves establishing causal relationships through highly controlled experiments in laboratories. The researcher manipulates independent variables and measures their effects on dependent variables, comparing experimental and control groups. While common in natural sciences, experiments can also be conducted in social sciences by drawing random samples and assigning subjects to conditions. However, experimental research has limitations in social sciences due to difficulties controlling human behavior.

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    Experimental research involves establishing causal relationships through highly controlled experiments in laboratories. The researcher manipulates independent variables and measures their effects on dependent variables, comparing experimental and control groups. While common in natural sciences, experiments can also be conducted in social sciences by drawing random samples and assigning subjects to conditions. However, experimental research has limitations in social sciences due to difficulties controlling human behavior.

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    Experimental research involves establishing causal relationships through highly controlled experiments in laboratories. The researcher manipulates independent variables and measures their effects on dependent variables, comparing experimental and control groups. While common in natural sciences, experiments can also be conducted in social sciences by drawing random samples and assigning subjects to conditions. However, experimental research has limitations in social sciences due to difficulties controlling human behavior.

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    The key takeaways are that experimental research aims to establish causal relationships through highly controlled experiments and manipulation of variables in laboratory settings.

    An experimental research method involves deliberately manipulating an independent variable and observing its effects on a dependent variable while controlling other factors. It aims to establish causation through a hypothesis, experimental group, and control group.

    The experimental group has its environment or experience changed or manipulated in some way, such as being exposed to a new variable. The control group is treated as similarly as possible but does not participate in the experimental manipulation.

    EXPERIMENTAL METHOD OF RESEARCH:

    This is the type of research in which the experimenter is


    present at the scene of data collection and has considerable
    control over the experimental environment, which is the
    laboratory. Due to the control, he or she attempts to establish a
    causal relationship. Experimental research is normally performed
    in the laboratories and the experimenter aims at establishing
    causations.

    Experimental research is highly controlled method of


    showing the existence of a causal relationship between variables.
    This method of research is very scientific since the basis of
    science is experimentation. It involves cause and relationship that
    must be present and also involve a control group. The control
    group makes it important for us to understand the experimental
    group. Even though it is common in the natural sciences,
    experimental research is also carried

    out in social sciences. The respondents are drawn from the


    sample population and each has the same chance of being
    selected to any of the control experimental groups.

    By description, an experimental research is an artificial


    arrangement of conditions specifically designed to allow objective
    conclusions about the effect of some factors or some aspects of
    behavior. The factor or behavior whose effects we want to know
    more about is called independent variable. For instance, for one
    to know whether negative feedback makes people more or less
    persistent on subsequent tasks, types of feedback given would be
    the independent variable and time spent working on a later task
    might be the dependent variable.

    The experimental group is the group in which its


    environment is changed and it is the group that is treated
    specifically with the variable that is being tested. The control
    group on the other hand is the group that is treated as much as
    possible like the experimental group except that it does not
    participate in the experiment manipulation by not providing it any
    special treatment or special experience like the variable that is
    being tested.

    One significant feature of experimental research method is


    that science hypothesis is always first made to serve as a guide. A
    hypothesis is an assumption that is precise enough to be tested
    and which can be shown to be incorrect by the use of some
    special statistical manipulation.

    LIMITATIONS OF EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH METHOD:

    In Social Science research, experimental research is not


    mostly suitable since human beings are not easy to control. The
    way it is done to other beings in which the experimental group is
    different from the control group. Also the experimenter is
    expected to have some knowledge of statistics. This makes
    analysis almost impossible if the experimenter does not have
    knowledge of statistics.
    Reference:

    Bailey, Kenneth D. (1987) Method of Social Research. MacMillan


    Publisher.

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