You Are Interested in Investigating Whether Blondes Really Do Have

question 85

Multiple Choice

You are interested in investigating whether blondes really do have more fun. To do so, you ask a group of blondes and a group of brunettes to self-report on their level of fun. In this study, _____ would be considered the independent variable, whereas _____ would be considered the dependent variable.

• A) amount of fun; hair color
• B) hair color; age of the participants
• C) amount of fun; number of participants in each condition
• D) hair color; amount of fun

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Definitions:

States Consciousness

Varying levels of awareness, including wakefulness, sleep, dreaming, and other altered states of consciousness.

Selective Attention

Selective attention is the process by which a person focuses on one particular object or task while ignoring other stimuli or information.

Cocktail Party Effects

The ability to focus one's auditory attention on a particular stimulus while filtering out a range of other stimuli, as if at a noisy party.

Inattentional Blindnesses

A psychological phenomenon where an individual fails to perceive an unexpected stimulus in plain sight when their attention is focused on another task or aspect of their environment.