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londonang

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Jon believes that exercise is a cause of higher levels of life satisfaction. If Jon plans to study this hypothesis experimentally, his independent variable would be the ____.
 
  a. amount of exercise his participants receive
  b. level of life satisfaction before the exercise
  c. level of life satisfaction after the exercise
  d. physical health of his participants

Question 2

To investigate the effects of exercise on mathematical problem-solving ability, a researcher assignsparticipants to one of two groups. One group cycles on an exercise bike for one hour, and the other group performs no exercises. Afterward, both groups work on a set of math problems and their performances are compared. In this experiment, the group that does not exercise is the ____.
 
  a. control group
  b. dependent variable
  c. independent variable
  d. intervening group



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aprice35067

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Answer to Question 1

ANSWER:
a

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER:
c




londonang

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Reply 2 on: Jun 19, 2018
Excellent


Dinolord

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Reply 3 on: Yesterday
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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