You Have a Hypothesis That Sugar Decreases the Ability to Remember

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Essay

You have a hypothesis that sugar decreases the ability to remember lists of words, and that this impairment increases with the amount of sugar that is administered. Design a between groups single factor true experiment to test this idea. Be sure to define your independent and dependent variables. How will you recruit subjects? How will you allocate subjects and conditions?

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Definitions:

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