Dr. Ramos is interested in studying how indoor lighting can influence people's moods during the winter. A sample of 100 households is selected. Fifty of the homes are randomly assigned to the bright-light condition where Dr. Ramos replaces all the lights with 100-watt bulbs. In the other 50 houses, all the lights are changed to 60-watt bulbs. After two months, Dr. Ramos measures the level of
depression for the people living in the houses. Assuming that the study uses people from different age groups, participant age would be a(n) ____ variable in the experiment.
a. dependent
b. independent
c. extraneous
d. confounding
c
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a) "Your guesses were at chance level." b) "Your guesses were actually below chance." c) "Please come back because very few people achieve that level of guessing." d) "Paranormal ability is common and you scored at the level we expect of most people who have above average but not extraordinary ability."
Contrast the "melting pot" model of minority adolescent identity with the "pluralistic society" model of minority identity development
What will be an ideal response?