A Psychologist Was Interested in the Effect of Hunger on Psychological

question 216

Multiple Choice

A psychologist was interested in the effect of hunger on psychological disturbances. The psychologist deprived half of a group of healthy volunteers of food for one day and fed the other half normally, then administered the MMPI-2 to all the participants. What was the independent variable?

• A) level of food deprivation
• B) the MMPI-2
• C) the results on the MMPI-2
• D) There is no independent variable because this is a correlational study.

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