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Name: Gracie Hurt
Assignment #1 (18 pts worth 15% of grade)
DUE SEPTEMBER 19th
Identifying Independent and Dependent Variables, Study Designs, and Calculating
Measures of Central Tendency
Instructions: For each research description below, identify the independent variable and
dependent variable. (10pts)
1. Researchers want to see if paying artists for their work causes them to lose motivation to
work on their art. They ask artists to rate how motivated they are to paint. Then, half of
the artists are paid for painting and half are not. At the end of the study, the artists are
asked to rate again how motivated they are to paint.
Independent Variable: Paying the artists
Dependent Variable: the motivation of the artists
