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Racism refers to Prejudice and/or Discrimination against others because of their race or ethnicity.

Deutsch: Strahlung / Español: Radiación / Português: Radiação / Français: Radiation / Italian: Radiazione

Radiation in the psychology context typically refers to the impact of exposure to ionizing radiation on mental health and cognitive functions. This can include psychological responses to radiation exposure, as well as cognitive and emotional effects resulting from radiotherapy used in medical treatments.

Random Assignment refer to the assignment of Research participants to treatment conditions whereby each participant has an equal chance of being assigned to each condition.

Random process refers to a procedure that produces one outcome from a set of possible outcomes. The outcome must be unpredictable each time, and the process must guarantee that each

Random sample refers to a survey procedure in which every person in the population being studied has an equal chance of inclusion.

Random sampling refers to a recruitment process in which every person in a particular population has exactly the same probability of being in the study; it produces a representative s

Random variable refers to a circumstance in an experiment whose level is determined by chance rather than being controlled by the experimenter.

Randomization refers to the process whereby individuals are assigned to study groups without biases or differences resulting from selection.

A technique for assigning experimental subjects to experimental and control groups randomly.

The use of a random process to help avoid a systematic relationship between two variables. The intent is to disrupt any systematic relationship that might exist between extraneous variables and the independent variable.