An Experiment Tested Whether the Context of the Learning Environment

question 81

Multiple Choice

An experiment tested whether the context of the learning environment was important in memory recall.Sixteen people learned a list of 40 unrelated words either inside a room or outside of a house on a patio.Later they were asked to recall the words in either the same environment they learned the list of words in or the alternative environment.The number of correctly recalled words was measured.
In this experiment,the number of correctly recalled words was

• A)the independent variable
• B)the dependent variable
• C)a constant
• D)none of the above

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