You Are Interested in Finding Out the Effect That Crowding

question 32

Multiple Choice

You are interested in finding out the effect that crowding has on people's moods. You conduct a study in a psychology research lab using two types of participants - participants who have to wait in a crowded waiting room before completing a measure of their mood, and participants who wait in an empty room before completing the same measure. Which type of research did you conduct?

• A) correlational research
• B) experimental research
• C) laboratory research
• D) both experimental and laboratory research

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Definitions:

Media Effects

The various ways in which media can influence people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

Sleep Deprivation

A condition resulting from insufficient rest, affecting cognitive function, mood, and physical health.

Experiment

A research method involving the manipulation of variables to observe the effect on some behavior or mental process.

Negatively Correlated

A connection between two variables where, as one variable rises, the other falls, and the opposite is also true.