Question

A child psychologist wants to find out if playing video games with violent content makes kids more prone to violent behaviour. The psychologist has children come into a lab and has a group of children play a highly violent video game (experimental group) and another group of children play a game with no violence (control group). Then the psychologist watches the kids play with other children and records any violent behaviour.

1. How could this be done as an observational study? Be specific about how you might conduct a similar study.  

Answer 1

Solution

This can be done as an observational study when the one group will be divided on to the basis of the age of the children ,the observer will divide them in such a way that the children's who are playing violent video games and who are not playing violent video games.

After the formation of two groups they will compare them with an exposur,that will happen if they will go through such conditions and all.

For specific study, this can be conducted in the similar manner i.e.experimental because experimental way are the best way to read a case and compare to do the further analysis and solutions.