A Psychologist Is Conducting an Experiment to Test the Influence

question 161

Multiple Choice

A psychologist is conducting an experiment to test the influence that coloured backgrounds of pages in textbooks have on the amount of information retained by students. She has a short text printed in three versions, each with a different colour of background. After students in three separate groups read their assigned text, she tests the students' retention. In this study, the three colours are the

• A) dependent variable.
• B) control variable.
• C) independent variable.
• D) random variable.

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