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You are curious as to whether exposing people to violent video games causes them to be more aggressive. You assign half of your participants to play a violent video game for 5 minutes and the other half to play the same video game for 25 minutes. Afterward, you have them play a board game and have a well-trained research assistant determine whether their playing style is very aggressive, barely aggressive, or not at all aggressive. You find that a vast majority of your participants, regardless of group assignment, are rated as very aggressive. This outcome would be known as a(n) _____.

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Answer:

Ceiling effect

Step-by-step explanation:

As a result of an experiment made to see if violent video games had any effect on making people aggressive, it is found that, in fact, it makes people more aggressive as a pool of people who were exposed to violent video games for a period of time showed more aggressiveness than people who didn't.

This is called ceiling effect and this means that the maximum number of subjects in a test ot study show favorable responses to an observed variable.

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