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 the 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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