Questions Below Will Be Bases on the Following Study: a Researcher

question 76

Multiple Choice

Questions below will be bases on the following study: A researcher wishes to test whether the drug, magnesium pemoline, has any influence on intelligence. Two groups of subjects are randomly selected from the population of Omega University students. Group A is given the magnesium pemoline and then tested on the Stanford-Binet IQ test. Group B is given a placebo and, then, also tested on the Stanford-Binet. Both groups are tested under identical environmental conditions.
-The dependent variable in this study is (are) the

• A) magnesium pemoline
• B) testing conditions
• C) IQ scores
• D) there was no dependent variable in this study

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