What Was the Independent Variable in Crum and Langer's Hotel

question 419

Multiple Choice

What was the independent variable in Crum and Langer's hotel experiment?

• A) being informed that housekeeping work was good exercise
• B) being informed that housekeeping work was unhealthy and contributed to health problems
• C) the amount of exercise each group engaged in outside their housekeeping jobs
• D) how much weight the participants lost on average over the course of the study

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Definitions:

Overjustification Effect

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Payrise

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Promotion

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