Answer to Question #280544 in Psychology for Muzna

Question

Identify dependent and independent variable:

1) A psychologist hypothesize that people eat less when they know that they are being monitored by someone. For this, the psychologist gathered 20 students from a university and divided them into two groups. Both of the groups were given their favourite food items to eat. However the second group was told that they are being monitorized by CCTV camera and nothing was said to the first group.

Answer 1

Eating is the dependant variable. The independent variable is being monitored.