You Are Interested in Finding Out the Effect That Crowding

question 32

Multiple Choice

You are interested in finding out the effect that crowding has on people's moods. You conduct a study in a psychology research lab using two types of participants - participants who have to wait in a crowded waiting room before completing a measure of their mood, and participants who wait in an empty room before completing the same measure. Which type of research did you conduct?

• A) correlational research
• B) experimental research
• C) laboratory research
• D) both experimental and laboratory research

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