You Have a Hypothesis That Sugar Decreases the Ability to Remember

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Essay

You have a hypothesis that sugar decreases the ability to remember lists of words, and that this impairment increases with the amount of sugar that is administered. Design a between groups single factor true experiment to test this idea. Be sure to define your independent and dependent variables. How will you recruit subjects? How will you allocate subjects and conditions?

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Definitions:

Basket Of Goods

This term refers to a fixed set of consumer products and services valued on a regular basis for the purpose of tracking inflation in an economy.

CPI

The Consumer Price Index, which measures the average change over time in the prices paid by urban consumers for a market basket of consumer goods and services.

Proportion

An element, division, or percentage judged in comparison to its complete sum.

Ratio

A mathematical relationship between two numbers showing how many times the first number contains the second.