Professor Caine Is Running an Experiment to Determine If Exercise

question 45

Multiple Choice

Professor Caine is running an experiment to determine if exercise affects memory retention. Two groups of participants are given the same list of 25 words and allowed 15 minutes to study them. Then one group sits idly in a classroom while the other participates in an hour-long aerobic work-out. After the work-out each group is tested in the classroom on the list of words. What is the independent variable in this study?

• A) the aerobic work-out
• B) the word list
• C) scores on the test
• D) time allowed to study

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