An Experiment Was Designed to Determine If Gender of the Interviewer

question 59

Multiple Choice

An experiment was designed to determine if gender of the interviewer and the amount of eye contact by the interviewer will influence the participant’s liking of an interviewer. Thus participants were randomly assigned to groups that had either a male or female interviewer who made little, moderate, or sustained eye contact. At the end of the sessions, the participants were asked to rate their liking of the interviewer.
-If the experimenter wanted 8 participants per group, she would need a total of _________participants.

• A) 16
• B) 32
• C) 48
• D) 72

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