To Determine Whether Weight Loss Is Easier When You Maintain

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Multiple Choice

To determine whether weight loss is easier when you maintain a goal focus, Conlon and his colleagues assigned participants to one of three weight loss groups, goal-focused, achievement-focused, and no-focus control.Each group met for 12 weekly meetings and had access to a special website.Then,every week, goal-focused participants were asked to describe how much more weight they needed to lose to reach their goal, while achievement-focused participants were asked to describe how much weight they had already lost.At this point in their research, Conlon and his associates were completing which step in the scientific method?

• A) disseminating their results
• B) building a theory
• C) defining the problem
• D) gathering evidence to test their hypothesis

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