A Group of Researchers Wanted to Determine If People Will

question 34

Multiple Choice

A group of researchers wanted to determine if people will eat more food in a room with red paint and red decorations than in a room that is decorated blue. Half the participants in this study ate in a red room and half ate in a blue room. The researchers then measured how much food was consumed in each of the two rooms. In this study, the independent variable was

• A) the type of food that was available during the study.
• B) the amount of food that was consumed.
• C) the colour of the decorations in the room.
• D) how hungry the participants were at the end of the study.

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