A Psychologist Designs an Experiment to Determine the Effect of Eye

question 163

Multiple Choice

A psychologist designs an experiment to determine the effect of eye contact on children's smiling.Group I is exposed to 10 eye contacts during the session, whereas Group II is exposed to no eye contacts during the session.The psychologist records the number of times the children in each group smile.In this study, the number of:

• A)smiles is the independent variable.
• B)eye contacts is the dependent variable.
• C)eye contacts is the independent variable.
• D)smiles is the correlative variable.

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