There Were Two Independent Variables in the Loftus and Colleagues

question 60

Multiple Choice

There were two independent variables in the Loftus and colleagues (1978) experiment.What were they?

• A) what type of traffic sign they saw and whether the question they were asked matched or didn't match the sign they saw
• B) what sign they identified as seeing from a group of 30 slides and what type of traffic sign they saw
• C) whether or not a gorilla walked past the traffic sign and what kind of car was in the pictures
• D) whether the question they were asked matched or didn't match the sign they saw and whether the driver was Black or Hispanic

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Definitions:

Cups of Coffee

A unit of measure or a reference to the quantity of coffee consumed or required for a given purpose.

Variance

A measure of the spread or dispersion of a set of data points, calculated as the average of the squared differences from the mean.

Goals

Objectives or desired outcomes that an individual or organization aims to achieve.

Random Variable

A variable linked to numerical outcomes produced by random effects.