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panfilo

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A study is done examining whether rewarding children for good behavior increases the amount of time students spend studying. In this study, the amount of time spent studying would be the _____ variable.
 
  a. control
  b. dependent
  c. confounding
  d. independent

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A psychologist measures the IQs of 20 students who ingested a smart pill and 20 students who ingested a sugar pill in order to determine if the pill had an effect on intelligence. To ensure peak performance, she tests all of the students on Wednesdays. In this experiment, the dependent variable is the
 
  a. day of the week.
  b. pill type.
  c. IQ score.
  d. sex of the researcher.


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allisonblackmore

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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

c


panfilo

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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
Excellent

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YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

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