The Next Questions Refer to the Following Experiment

question 59

Multiple Choice

The next questions refer to the following experiment:
A researcher investigated the effect of a child's attractiveness and gender on judgments of personality and intelligence. Male teachers were shown photos of children to obtain their "first impressions" of children. Each teacher was shown four photos (the order was randomized for each teacher) : an attractive boy, an unattractive boy, an attractive girl, and an unattractive girl. The teachers rated the apparent friendliness of the child and also estimated the child's intelligence.
-This study includes the gender of of the children in the photos as

• A) a manipulated variable
• B) a subject variable
• C) a dependent variable
• D) se an uncontrolled extraneous variable

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Definitions:

Bulimia

An eating disorder characterized by episodes of binge eating followed by compensatory behaviors like vomiting, fasting, or excessive exercise to prevent weight gain.

Personality Disorders

Mental health conditions characterized by enduring patterns of thought, feeling, and behavior that are significantly different from cultural expectations and cause distress or impaired functioning.

Symptoms

The physical or mental features that are regarded as indicating a condition of disease, often noticed by the patient.

Eating Disorders

Mental disorders defined by abnormal eating habits that negatively affect a person's physical or mental health, including anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.