A Group of Researchers Wanted to Determine If People Will

question 62

Multiple Choice

A group of researchers wanted to determine if people will eat more food in a room with red paint and red decorations than in a room that is decorated blue.Half the participants in this study ate in a red room and half ate in a blue room.The researchers then measured how much food was consumed in each of the two rooms.In this study,the independent variable was

• A) the type of food that was available during the study.
• B) the amount of food that was consumed.
• C) the color of the decorations in the room.
• D) how hungry the participants were at the end of the study.