A Researcher Is Interested in Interpersonal Attraction and the Factors

question 7

Multiple Choice

A researcher is interested in interpersonal attraction and the factors that affect it.She designs a study in which she looks at the effect of similarity and social warmth on interpersonal attraction.Participants in her study meet a target person who either is or is not similar to the participant (the similarity variable) and who is either friendly or aloof (the social warmth variable) .After interacting with the target person under these conditions,participants are then asked to rate how attractive they think the target person is.In this study,similarity and social warmth are the ________ variables and interpersonal attraction is the ________ variable.

• A) independent;dependent
• B) dependent;independent
• C) causal;control
• D) control;outcome

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