Note: If more than $13,000 of debt is canceled in one year, the gift giver has to file a gift tax return (although they almost certainly will not owe a tax). That should not affect you as the recipient. Example: Roxy borrowed $6,000 from her dad while she was unemployed. She wrote up a promissory note for the debt.
Control Group and Experimental Group. True experiments must have a control group, which is a group of research participants that resemble the experimental group but do not receive the experimental treatment. The control group provides a reliable baseline data to which you can compare the experimental results.
The researcher decides where the experiment will take place, at what time, with which participants, in what circumstances and using a standardized procedure. Participants are randomly allocated to each independent variable group. An example is Milgramâs experiment on obedience or Loftus and Palmer's car crash study.