Mariah Wants to Study the Effects of Arousal and Cost

question 116

Multiple Choice

Mariah wants to study the effects of arousal and cost on helping behavior. She has two experimental conditions of high versus low arousal, and combines that with two experimental conditions with high and low cost of helping. This creates four possible conditions: high arousal/high cost, high arousal/low cost, low arousal/high cost, and low arousal/low cost. She then measures which condition results in the highest rate of helping behavior. Mariah has employed ____.

• A) a factorial design
• B) a meta-analysis
• C) a correlational approach
• D) mundane realism

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