Consider the Following Experiment

question 40

Multiple Choice

Consider the following experiment. Children are drawn from high-, middle-, and low-income households. All the children are divided into two groups. One group watches "Sesame Street" on TV every day for a month while the other group watches cartoons. Both groups are then given a test that measures creativity. In this study, ________.

• A) there is no dependent variable; this is a correlational study
• B) the dependent variable is the children's socioeconomic class
• C) the dependent variable is what the children watch on TV
• D) the dependent variable is the children's scores on the creativity test

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