Your Text Describes a Study (Cahill Et Al

question 67

Multiple Choice

Your text describes a study (Cahill et al.,1994) in which participants either received a tranquilizer or a placebo and heard either an emotional or a neutral story.The accuracy of participants' story recall was then assessed.Which alternative below correctly names and identifies the variables in this study?

• A) independent variables - drug and story type; dependent variable - story recall accuracy
• B) experimental variables - tranquilizer and story type; control variable - placebo
• C) dependent variables - drug and story type; independent variable - story recall accuracy
• D) experimental variables - tranquilizer and emotional story; control variables - placebo and neutral story

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