Suppose You Were Interested in Studying How the Color of a Room

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Essay

Suppose you were interested in studying how the color of a room might affect student performance on exams. Describe the experiment you would design to investigate this, and be sure to indicate what the independent and dependent variables are in the study you chose, and how you might deal with the problem of confounding variables.

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Definitions:

Recessionary Gap

A situation where an economy's actual production is less than its potential output, often leading to unemployment and underused resources.

Potential Output

The level of productivity an economy can achieve with full employment and resources utilization, without causing inflation.

Natural Rate

The Natural Rate often refers to the natural rate of unemployment, where the unemployment rate is at a level expected in a fully efficient market without cyclical or short-term unemployment.

Long-Run Aggregate Supply Curve

This curve shows the relationship between the overall price level and the total output produced in an economy when wages and resource prices fully adjust to changes, reflecting an economy’s maximum sustainable output level.