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Dr. Bishop is studying the effects of a drug on memory. Half of his participants will receive the drug, while the other half will receive a placebo. The pills the two groups of participants will take look exactly the same. Dr. Bishop hopes that the use of a placebo will ____.
 
  a. allow him to have control over the dependent variables
  b. show if memory improvement is based on participant expectations
  c. create a double-blind design for his research
  d. eliminate the chance of random variables confounding his experiment

Question 2

In research, uncontrollable factors such as the temperature of the room, the mood of the participants, and chance effects are considered ____ variables.
 
  a. independent
  b. random
  c. dependent
  d. control


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Reply #1 on: Jun 19, 2018
Answer to Question 1

ANSWER:
b

Answer to Question 2

ANSWER:
b


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