An Experimental Psychologist Is Interested in Whether the Color of an Animal's

question 6

Multiple Choice

An experimental psychologist is interested in whether the color of an animal's surroundings affects learning rate. He tests 16 rats in a box with colorful wallpaper. The average rat (of this strain) can learn to run this type of maze in a box without any special coloring in an average of 25 trials, with a variance of 64, and a normal distribution. The mean number of trials to learn the maze, for the rats tested with the colorful wallpaper, is 11.
-What is the μ_M?

• A)8
• B)11
• C)25
• D)64

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