Dueling Brains

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"What's Wrong With This Study?"
From the tutorial I learned how challenging it is to conduct research. All four studies had challenges from test size, to potential experimenter bias, to non-representative sample groups. The tutorial reiterates our text and really illustrates how important it is to analyze studies and to look at the data and information to determine if the study has validity.
Dueling Brains”
In this tutorial, I found it interesting that the brain has a right and left hemisphere and that each side appears to be the same but in realty have different specializations. I took the word recognition test and my results showed that I was primarily a right brain person.

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