Running head: THE EFFECTS OF PRIMING AND EXPERIMENTAL BIAS ON SCORING RAT PLAY BEHAVIOR

The Effects of Priming and Experimental Bias on Scoring in a Rat Pup Play Behavior Experiment

Abstract
In this study researchers tested the effects of priming and experimental bias on students that were rating rat pup play behavior. Four classes were randomly assigned one of four different test sheets that had a combination either yes priming, no priming, yes experimental condition, and no experimental condition. The expected outcome for priming was that those participants that received it would rate the rat play behavior lower than participants that did not receive it. This hypothesis was supported. The expected outcome for the experimental condition was that those participants that were given experimental condition information of which rats were hungry would rate rat play behavior lower than those who did not receive this information. This hypothesis was not supported. It was also......

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Title: No Child Left Behind
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