Simone observed a group of adults at the local shopping mall. She ...

[serike]

Simone observed a group of adults at the local shopping mall. She recorded the length of time (in minutes) they stayed and the number of purchases they made, and then analyzed her data to see if there was a relationship between these two variables. What type of study is this called?
 
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Question 2

Suppose you are interested in how participants behave in different color conditions. You select 30 participants and assign them to one of three rooms. The rooms differ only with respect to the color of the walls. One room is white, one is pale blue, and a third is bright red. Each participant is served a meal of a hamburger and french fries, and you then measure how long it takes them to finish eating. What are the conditions of the independent variable?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

[scrocafella]

Answer to Question 1

This is a correlational study.

Answer to Question 2

The conditions of the independent variable are red, white, and blue.

[serike]

Excellent

[bigcheese9]

Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it