An Experiment Was Conducted to Determine If Gender of the Teacher

question 38

Multiple Choice

An experiment was conducted to determine if gender of the teacher and the amount of eye contact by the teacher influenced students' liking of the teacher. Students were randomly assigned to groups that had either a male or female teacher who made little, moderate, or sustained eye contact while giving students a lecture on career choices. At the end of the lecture the students were asked to rate their liking of the teacher. In this design, which of the following outcomes would indicate an interaction effect?

• A) Male and female teachers are liked more with longer eye contact.
• B) Male and female teachers are liked less with longer eye contact
• C) Male teachers are liked more with longer eye contact but duration of eye contact has no effect on the liking of female teachers
• D) All of the above are interaction effects

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