Consider the Following Experiment

question 3

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

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