Professor X Is Studying the Effect of Exposure to Sexual

question 126

Multiple Choice

Professor X is studying the effect of exposure to sexual content on sexual thoughts.She assigns students to one of two conditions.In the first condition,participants are exposed to explicit sexual content and then given a word-completion task,which involves filling in the letter missing from each word.Based on the letter added,the word could be of a sexual nature or not.For instance,b_d could be completed as "bed," indicating sexual thought,or as "bad," which has no sexual connotation.In the second condition,participants are not exposed to explicit sexual content but are assigned the same word-completion task.What is the independent variable?

• A) sexual thought
• B) the word-completion task
• C) exposure to explicit sexual content
• D) random assignment

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Definitions:

Feudalism

A legal arrangement in preindustrial Europe that bound peasants to the land and obliged them to give their landlords a set part of the harvest. In exchange, landlords were required to protect peasants from marauders and open their storehouses and feed the peasants if crops failed.

Manufacturing Production

The process of converting raw materials or components into finished goods through the use of machinery and labor in factories.

Means of Production

The resources, such as land, factories, and tools, required for the production of goods and services.

Proletariat

In Marx’s usage, is the working class. Members of the proletariat perform physical labor but do not own means of production. They are thus in a position to earn wages.