Medical Wonders Is a Specialized Interior Design Company Focused on Healing

question 73

Multiple Choice

Medical Wonders is a specialized interior design company focused on healing artwork.The CEO, Kathleen Kelledy claims that artwork has healing effects for patients staying in a hospital, as measured by reduced length of stay.Her current client is a children's cancer hospital.Kathleen is interested in determining the effect of three different pieces of healing artwork on children.She chooses three paintings (a horse photo, a bright abstract, and a muted beach scene) and randomly assigns six hospital rooms to each painting.In Kathleen's experimental design "painting style" is _______.

• A)the dependent variable
• B)a concomitant variable
• C)a treatment variable
• D)a blocking variable
• E)a response variable

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Definitions:

Stressful Experience

An event or situation that triggers significant emotional, physical, or psychological strain or tension in an individual.

Stressor

Any event, experience, or environmental stimulus that causes stress in an individual.

Control

In an experimental setting, the standard by which the test results can be compared; usually a group or condition that does not receive the experimental treatment.

Friends

Individuals with whom one shares a bond of mutual affection, typically exclusive of sexual or family relations.