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Dr. Low is interested in studying the effect mood has on the willingness to help a stranger. She randomly assigns half of her participants to the pleasant mood condition and shows them funny film clips. The other half of her participants is assigned to the unpleasant mood condition and is forced to watch boring film clips. She then gives every participant an opportunity to donate money to a homeless stranger. Dr. Low is using a(n) ________ design.

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Answer: experimental

Step-by-step explanation:

Experimental design refers to the branch of statistics that has to do with the design and the analysis of experiments. It's a way to plan experiments so that an objective and valid result can be gotten.

Experimental design simply means how the participants will be allocated to the different groups that are in an experiment. In this scenario, Dr Low has assigned her participants based on her research study.

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