Mia Is a Participant in a Human Intervention Study Designed

question 28

Multiple Choice

Mia is a participant in a human intervention study designed to test the effectiveness of losing weight by eating a diet that contains 25% of one's required kcalories from fat Because she is in this study, Mia has decided to increase the amount of exercise she gets and to reduce the amount of beer she drinks Mia's behavior is an example of _____

• A)the Sanders effect
• B)subject bias
• C)a confounding variable
• D)the Hawthorne effect

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