A Stress Researcher Wants to Look at the Effect of Meditation

question 86

Multiple Choice

A stress researcher wants to look at the effect of meditation on anxiety. To do this, she creates two groups of subjects: one group receives instruction in meditation, while the other receives no training at all. One month later, she has subjects complete a questionnaire designed to measure anxiety and she looks to see whether there are any differences in anxiety between the two groups. In this experiment, the meditation condition (meditation vs. no meditation) is the independent variable and anxiety is the _____________ variable.

• A)independent
• B)dependent
• C)correlational
• D)confounding

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Definitions:

Socially Loaf

A psychological phenomenon where individuals exert less effort to achieve a goal when they work in a group than when they work alone.

Group Task Impact

Refers to the influence that working in a group can have on the performance and outcome of a task.

Social Loafing

The situation in which persons contribute less towards a goal's attainment while in a group setting than they do when working individually.

Less Likely Cooperate

The decreased likelihood or willingness to work together with others towards a common goal.